[Facil] Fwd: Marvell et le XO3: la fin de la guerre était: Re: [fsf-community-team] These articles talk about Ubuntu and describe it as "Linux"

[Fabian Rodriguez]

Tiens, la fin de la guerre est enfin annoncée.

Blague à part, ça me semble très prometteur :)

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Subject: 	Re: [fsf-community-team] These articles talk about Ubuntu and 
describe it as "Linux"
Date: 	Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:26:28 -0400
From: 	Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	FSF Community Team <fsf-community-team at gnu.org>
To: 	rms at gnu.org
CC: 	fsf-community-team at gnu.org



On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 22:52, Richard Stallman<rms at gnu.org>  wrote:
>      Marvell, for example, is creating such chips for the radio functions
>      in OLPC XOs, where there was some fuss a few years ago about a
>      proprietary microkernel on-chip.
>
>  Can you tell me more details about this?

Not a lot. The essential fact was that Marvell didn't own the
microkernel on its wireless chipset, and couldn't get the rights to
give to OLPC. That will not be a problem for the next generation
chipset, now that Marvell understands the importance to its business
of providing Free Software on-chip. (Possibly sales of hundreds of
millions of units.)

Here is the outline.

http://www.cmosnetworks.com/OLPC-MarvellIssue-MyWriteUpOfTheSituation.html
Jim Gettys:

"We do in fact have a Free Software device driver for use with the
kernel Linux. It is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2, apparently written by Marvell itself. The driver is called
"Libertas" and is in OLPC's git repository.

"Marvell currently has a proprietary firmware image that must be
uploaded to the chipset. This firmware runs on the chipset's own ARM
processor in the chipset's own RAM, not the host system's CPU or
operating system kernel.

"OLPC is working with a company called Meraki to create a totally new,
open firmware for the 88W8388 chipset. There is not yet a timeline for
when this will be available."

If you would like to follow up in detail, you can ask Jim.

Marvell is deeply committed to the OLPC project, and to providing Free
Software throughout.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Marvell-gives-OLPC-5-6-million-for-development-of-next-gen-laptop-1101589.html

Negroponte added that, "Their money is a grant to the OLPC Foundation
to develop a tablet or tablets based on their chip," noting that,
"They’re going to put the whole system on a chip".

The new XO tablet will reportedly be based on Marvell’s Moby reference
design and on OLPC’s current tablet designs, which features an 8.5 by
11 inch touch screen (the size of US letter paper), a virtual keyboard
and a camera on the back. The OLPC project says that the new tablets
will include new elements and capabilities based on feedback from
nearly two million users around the world and that it will require
approximately only one watt of power, compared to about 5 watts in
current XO laptops. As previously confirmed by Negroponte, the XO-3 is
expected to cost $75 and is targeted for release in 2012.

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The result is the long-promised under-$100 computer, running GNU/Linux
and Free Sugar education software, with OFW for booting, and Free
Software on its programmable chipsets. Its target market consists of
governments running school systems for a billion children. Which means
that in another generation, GNU/Linux and the rest of Free Software
take over the software market worldwide and turn it from a market into
a commons. I believe that this is of interest to you.

Oh, and by the way, it also means the end of poverty and oppression,
and maybe even of war. Sugar software teaches collaboration by
actually allowing students to work together, for example with multiple
active cursors in a word processing document, multiple brushes on a
canvas, multiple musical instruments, and so on. The XO supports
networking between children worldwide via jabber servers, in addition
to local mesh networking under a tree or anywhere else. This means
that children will be able to learn from each other, not just from
adult teachers. It further means that children will create networks
that they will use later for business, creative work, software
development, and civil society.

All of this taken together means that our children, and those of us
not too ossified to work with them, can then tackle the _hard_
problems, in accordance with Doug Engelbart's program for Augmenting
Collective Intelligence.

Let me know if any of that is of interest to FSF.

>  --
>  Richard Stallman
>  President, Free Software Foundation
>  51 Franklin St
>  Boston MA 02110
>  USA
>  www.fsf.org,www.gnu.org
>



-- 
Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
http://www.earthtreasury.org/

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