On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 07:35:49PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 31.08.2017 16:40, Taiidan@??? wrote:
>
> >I doubt it will be owner controlled, as their laptops aren't - they still
> >haven't even gotten a blobbed version of coreboot working (blobbed init
> >code + ME enabled as they insisted on a crappy intel soc)
> >Purism isn't a trustworthy company.
>
> Don't know anything about that company, but in general x86 boards
> are much harder to bring up than ARMs. I only know very few completely
> custom x86 boards with open firmware - in ARM world that's daily
> business.
>
> The actually hard part w/ phones is creating a very small and power
> efficient board, that's a much bigger challenge than the usual
> embedded boards.
>
> There're several parties out there creating an open phone hw, lets
> see how that plays out.
>
> IMHO, we should now concentrate on the OS, maybe port the android
> runtime to GNU platform. That should give us an GUI and applet
> framework. Or we start afresh with a plan9-inspired approach.

Like Inferno?

-- hendrik