@ ChrisH: it is releveant, to the point we decided to do something aboutIT... :)
...the plan is to build freeScale e65oo PowerPC64EL GNU/Linux
notebook @least as an Open (Source?) Hardware, put aside
FreeOfPatents / respectYourFreedom hw for a moment... \o/ :) <(") ...of course, as practicality allows...there are also ideas/plans to do some 1o O.S. crossPorts (amigaOs, morphOs, bsd"s, redox, (open)darwin/fink, Haiku(OpenBeOS)m,...mayBe realTimes,...& atari MiNT, dolmen, pearlRealTime...just kidding :) ) ...again as patents would allow & interest is driven to doIT...
litleEndian mode unfortunately means no altivec(tor)Use (similar as MMXorFPU in x86 had it restricted)...so we"re still thinkering, "powerpc_32" is the userLand richiest fork, bigEndianPpc64 wouldNotBe / is not so debianPpc & ibm suported(seeBelow)...so the choice is tough...but ppc64el is the developer way to go...

http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/
http://forum.powerpc-notebook.org/index.php?board=6.0
http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/why-powerpc/

...after 6th c0reTeam (28 of 32o people) colab IRC/hat, we are now in stage of bringing up Statute for something like "Italian Open Hw Association" @the moment with working title "Power Progress Community"...feel free to suggest, not to close ourSelves in some cisc/risc arch cocoon...in eventual future projects (server, SBC SoC earlyDev experiment boards, IoT, digitalConvergence setTopBox/ mobile, gameConsoles like crowdFund failed RetroVGS,...)
...openPower is mentioned inside...crowdFunding for 5 prototypes is about to happen (55ooo €u ?)...Freescale(ex Motorola) have given us an T2080RDB devBoard to test...:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gD ... vvImcWY/edit?pref=2&pli=1

...my personal thinking on sw platform dedication was:

1.st Tier
Debian GNU/LinuxPPC64_EL >= 8.2/5 stable / 9.x testing / rollingRelease ... 96% of the autoServerBuild job is done inside of an Project, but later we would need to "give" developers to them, as we have been told...:

https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el#Debian_ppc64el_port

2.nd Tier
other Linux distros which someHow & to certaint extent support our target PowerISA...(think Community, infrastructure & ecosystem, not oneDimensionally & only technology excellence side...): in eg. FedoraPPC, OpenSuSEPPC ( in eg. kernel 4.7 inside unStable & experimental openSUSE "Tumbleweed" PPC64EB has just been crossPorted to A-One x1ooo/5ooo Freescale e55oo core),
ubunutuPPC, GentooPPC,...

http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub ... 21/Everything/ppc64le/os/
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71154
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:PowerPC
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/ppc/current-iso/

3.rd Tier

Open / Free unixes: NetBsd, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, system5: OpenIndiana(Solaris), OpenDarwin / Fink (Deb apt-get port 4 MacOS X),...:

http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/
http://www.finkproject.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fink

4.th Tier
nonUnix & free & nonFree crossPorts: Haiku (OpenBeOS/Zeta),
Redox, Minix, QNX realtime, PearlRT, ArOS (OpenSource), MorphOS
(partial OpenSource), AmigaOS 4.x, AtariMiNT (GEM/TOS bsd hybrid),...

https://genesi.company/support/software

...pric€$ sugested would be lower than todays a-One babyies...coz we doIT also as a "Socially Aware Project", not only to chace profit & patents...but real world production will be the final judge...aCube, aEon & bigBlu have understanding of this attitude we choose...
... no domeServerOnChip S.K.A. bigBlue intestins inside...as was
primarily hoped... :-/
...also SMP, 64bit (compared to 32bit better c0deDensity), multiC0re A-OS benefits must also be considered & addresed in proprietary case/instance design...if i remeber well Hyperion has done something aboutIT...although ELF2 actually allows mixing of cpu (ABI) architectures (including endianess) & platforms/OSs (API) c0de in one single file (fat/dual binary were used in Apple PowerMacs/Books mixing powerpc & x86 upTo MacOS x.4/5, with the cost of fileSize)...lets callIT hwLevelInteroperability/portability...
...classicAmiga 12ooPPC used hybrid aSymetric multiProcessing of
68oxo / ppc6o3e/G2...ppc was a kind a RISC onDemand coProc...although one could run APUS/Linux natively (mix of mkLinux, m68k linux conf mechanics & ppcLinux) after halfAnMinute contextSwitch on Phase5"s Blizzard Power Board 6o3ePlus/G2...elf was also an choice of object file for ppc.library A-OS 3.1 kernel...remember doom, heretic, hexen, quake.elf joy(sticks) of the 9o-ties...in ex. even DOS 6.22 original Hexen CD with .wads worked...ppc binaries just pulled from amiNet or mags...

http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/ ... rologue/architecture.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_binary
www.voodoo-amiga.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38

...managing hw "Free"-ness from Patents & "respectYourFreedom"
(DRM chip user espoinage & FSF-€ call for abandoning intel & amd for that matter, coz of malicious chipSet / (U)EFI firmware implementation), is an exhausting & tedious job of cleaning
propietary blobs from every level of hw/sw pyramide...:

https://platen-software.de/tobias/pict ... 812-700x745-minifree.jpeg
https://blogs.fsfe.org/tobias_platen/

... thats why we see Luke Lighton"s ARM EOMA68 parametric laptop design as a good role/case for our way...in sense of above mentioned user freedoms...as a step further...to reach: "someone will cloneUs--be my guest, & doIT faster" state of mind... :)

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
https://www.youmagine.com/designs/libr ... -parametric-laptop-design
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:823097

...even @ the sw level free-ness is hard to achieve: of more than 8oo linux distros, merely 1o are sw free of Patents (<1 %) ...one few 1oo bytes proprietary binaryOnly (no source !) blob, aimed only for specific kernel version, can ruin the day...& polute...:

http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.hr.html

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