Re: Gdium Liberty 1000

On Jul 28, 2009, at 5:40 PM, [email protected] wrote:

>> I've recently found an inexpensive ($350US) mips64 based netbook for
>> sale: the Gdium Liberty 1000.
>
> I'm tempted, simply because I believe anyone making non-x86 portables
> should be rewarded. :-)
>
>> 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.
>
> What _does_ it have?  How much of the hardware is open?  I'm wondering
> if we could do console-over-Ethernet or console-over-USB-serial or  
> some
> such initially - or perhaps callouts to ROM code or something.

http://olph.gdium.com/wiki/doku.php/hardware:start

console over usb-serial is seriously twisted but instead I'll have  
someone reword mine to have a real serial console (wiki describes  
what's needed)).

> Does it come with a Windows port, or the manufacturer's own OS, or a
> Linux port, or what?  I can't believe anyone is selling a machine
> without at least pointing customers at an OS to run on it.

Linux.  So those sources should be a useful reference.