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piratePenguin

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Re: Open source hardware.
« Reply #30 on: 15 February 2006, 17:54 »
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/15/sun_opensourcing_ultrasparc_chip/
Sun's releasing the sources for the UltraSPARC T1 under the GPL! That is pretty fucking cool.

I've come accross a tonne of "open source hardware" projects lately. http://www.opencores.org/projects.cgi/web/or1k/overview there's a(nother) free RISC CPU for ya. There's other free hardware projects on that site. Some more @ freeio.org.
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Re: Open source hardware.
« Reply #31 on: 15 February 2006, 20:48 »
Also, Promise has released an Open Source (GPL) Linux driver for their line of SATA RAID controllers.
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Re: Open source hardware.
« Reply #32 on: 15 February 2006, 20:59 »
Quote from: cymon
Also, Promise has released an Open Source (GPL) Linux driver for their line of SATA RAID controllers.
The stuff I've been posting are free hardware designs written in VHDL or somesuch (I've never tried to make use of them really). So you can probably hack at them if you know what you're doing and if you had the equipment you could produce them. It's like the source code for the hardware.

Still it's good to see more free drivers being released by the hardware manufacturers. Now that Sun's releasing the source code for this CPU, more (probably smaller) manufacturers might follow.
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Re: Open source hardware.
« Reply #33 on: 15 February 2006, 21:59 »
So are you planning to buy one of these new sun machines then?

I assume the firmware in the BIOS will be under the GPL too.

I wonder if one day we'll see opensource radios, TVs and even cars.
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Re: Open source hardware.
« Reply #34 on: 15 February 2006, 22:06 »
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So are you planning to buy one of these new sun machines then?
No. I don't plan on getting a new (primary) computer for a long time, but when I do I'll be considering all types of machines.
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I assume the firmware in the BIOS will be under the GPL too.
Well, they might do that, but I only know that one type of the CPU source code will be released under the GPL.
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I wonder if one day we'll see opensource radios, TVs and even cars.
You want a free radio? GNU Radio :p
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Re: Open source hardware.
« Reply #35 on: 16 February 2006, 00:07 »
In a way, cars are already open source.  Get a wrench and pop the hood.
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