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Bill Buck a Raquel Velasco z Genesi zveřejnili na MorphZone podrobnosti o vývoji PowerPC 5121e hardware v loňském roce, jejich dohodě s firmou THTF vyrábějící LimePC a podpoře druhého 5121e produktu - CherryPal. Na LimePC měl původně běžet MorphOS. Firma Genesi nedostala zaplaceno podle dohody s THTF za společný vývoj 5121e hardware, ani za CherryPal...

Anglický originál (reakce na uživatele Velcro_SP):

Hi Velcro, did you ever see this?

Read All About It!

Unscrupulous business practices are what any company working with these folks can expect. We wasted time and money supporting them. They never had any intention of fulfilling their written agreement which followed the referenced letter. You probably did not know that the LimePC was originally defined with MorphOS.

From February until June 2008, we did develop a considerable amount of 5121e specific software directly for Freescale. We developed graphic drivers, AXE code and validated a number of load balancing techniques. We supported openSUSE on the 5121eADS. The lack of cache-coherency made the 5121e less than an optimal solution, but it was the number of chip and board revisions that made this situation a development nightmare.

From June until August, we supported Cherrypal. They proved as reliable as THTF. Our invoices remain unpaid.

Finally, the Freescale manager responsible for IMTD (Infotainment Multimedia and Telematics Division) was fired in November. The Division was dissolved. The 5121e has solid managers now that are focused on the business that the chip was designed to match (Automotive and Industrial). It is not a LimePC.

Freescale's consumer focus is with ARM. The focus for PowerPC as far as Freescale is concerned is industrial and networking. The 8610 is the end-of-the-line for the e600 core. We have not been able to get them to change their thinking on this. Perhaps some success with the i.MX51 and we might try again. We wrote a blog about this today if you are interested: Genetic Recombination.

We also discuss some of Atom's longer term implications for Intel.

R&B

...and the last word we had from Freescale was that THTF still had not paid for the parts that had been delivered.

Here are a few more images. This is the cover of a 48 page document:

And, here is a LimePC at the office next to a EFIKA Open Client last summer. We still have 15-20 of them:

Velcro, if the current LimePC management is replaced and THTF honors our agreement, we will work on this platform. Until then, we won't waste another second.

R&B