Re: Gdium Liberty 1000

On Jul 28, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Andy Ruhl wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Matt Thomas<[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>>
>> I've recently found an inexpensive ($350US) mips64 based netbook  
>> for sale:
>> the Gdium Liberty 1000.  Getting NetBSD running on it looks fun but  
>> it needs
>> a framebuffer driver written for it.  Given the lack of serial,  
>> this will be
>> a bit challenge.  I'd be satisfied with an unaccelerated driver  
>> (genfb) to
>> start but eventually want an accelerated fb driver.
>>
>> If you're interested, please me let know.
>
> It's very cool looking. Only 512 megs of memory which is low for a
> netbook, but given it's intended purpose it's probably fine (no
> Windows in site).

People have upgraded it to 2GB by replace the 512MB SO-DIMM.

>> I don't think the 1000 has much in common with other hpcmips  
>> platforms but I
>> can't think of a better place to put it.
>
> You could always start with evbmips and then maybe start a new port
> for it if it's really that different.
>
> Do you have one then?

I will in a few days. :)