From ac7ecea7a8047c5130b57f9adb11b7d9522b982e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francis Rowe Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:01:05 +0000 Subject: Move vortex86ex notes out of libreboot. Move candidate to non-critical list of tasks. --- docs/release.html | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/release.html b/docs/release.html index 2c9e7da..4c8ea5b 100644 --- a/docs/release.html +++ b/docs/release.html @@ -160,14 +160,6 @@ -
  • - Look into these machines (based on discussions from IRC): - <pehjota> After the conversation yesterday about KolibriOS, I stumbled upon some hardware that community seems to like: the Vortex86 series of i586-compatible SoCs and the DMP EBOX nettops that use those SoCs. coreboot supports one computer by DMP (src/mainboard/dmp/vortex86ex/) which appears to be the EBOX-3100 (the only EBOX nettop AFAICT without VGA). Three years ago someone ported coreboot to the
    - <pehjota> EBOX-3300MX but apparently never upstreamed that work. These Vortex86 SoCs look pretty good, freedom-wise: I think there's no microcode at all, the VGA cores don't seem to need option ROMs, and there are no blobs for things like ME/MRC/AGESA. They have relatively low CPU clock rates (most at 600 or 933 MHz), so they aren't great for compiling or gaming. But they're sold as nettops, thin clients,
    - <pehjota> and embedded systems, and the prices ($95–$269 from the US distributor) aren't bad.
    - <pehjota> DMP EBOX computers: http://www.compactpc.com.tw/en/index.html. EBOX-3300MX coreboot port: https://github.com/XVilka/coreboot (last six commits). Basic (and incomplete) information on the Vortex86 SoCs: http://www.vortex86.com/. Some technical overviews and resources: http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/. DMP's BusyBox/Linux distribution (with a Linux config file but apparently no source code):
    - <pehjota> http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/os-xlinux/. -
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