Points of Interest

BIOS & Hardware

• http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Hardware
• http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/a-preliminary-analysis-of-high-priority-projects-feedback
• https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
• https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices
• https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html#supported_list
• http://www.replicant.us/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php
• http://firmwaresecurity.com/

• h-node database:

  https://h-node.org/notebooks/catalogue/en/1/1/Lenovo/undef/undef/undef/undef/undef/undef/undef

IRC Chat Channels

• #coreboot
• #libreboot

Open Hardware Tools

• https://www.sifive.com/products/freedom-e310/
• https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive1/
• https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/open-source-hardware
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allwinner_Technology
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_U-Boot
• http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/80684.html?rss=1

Schematics

• https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html, Section "Flash chips":
  • ThinkPad X200 http://pdf.datasheetarchive.com/indexerfiles/Datasheets-USER/DSAUPLD00006075.pdf
  • ThinkPad X200s http://pdf.datasheetarchive.com/indexerfiles/Datasheets-USER/DSAUPLD00006104.pdf
• http://thinkwiki.de/Sicherungen_X200_und_X200s_/_fuses_X200_and_X200s

Propeller 1 Open Source

• Parallax Propeller 1 P8X32A Released as Open Source Design

  https://www.parallax.com/microcontrollers/propeller-1-open-source

  The Propeller 1 (P8X32A) is now a 100% open multicore microcontroller, including all of the hardware and tools: Verilog code, Spin interpreter, PropellerIDE and SimpleIDE programming tools, and compilers. The Propeller 1 may be the most open chip in its class. — Ken Gracey, CEO, Parallax Inc.

• Propeller 1 Design (including Verilog and VHDL files),

  https://www.parallax.com/downloads/propeller-1-design

  to be used in conjunction with FPGA-development boards:

  • DE0-Nano Cyclone FPGA Board, https://www.parallax.com/product/60056
  • Altera DE2-115 FPGA Development Board, https://www.parallax.com/product/60050

• Propeller Object Exchange (OBEX), Contributed Code for the Propeller Microcontroller

  http://obex.parallax.com/

  • N256S0830HDA SPI SRAM driver, By: Tim Moore, created: 2013-03-28 | updated: 2013-04-11

    http://obex.parallax.com/object/35

    Driver is also a example of how to do SPI using counters for SPI clock, allows SPI speeds upto 10MHz.

• heise developer, Article by Tam Hanna

  http://www.heise.de/developer/artikel/Multicore-Programmierung-mit-dem-Propeller-Mikrocontroller-3142352.html

List of Licenses

• GNU, https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
• OSI, https://opensource.org/licenses/category

Hardware Shops

• http://www.watterott.com/
• http://www.segor.de/#

Off-Topic & Entertainment

• http://www.axoloti.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impromptu_%28programming_environment%29

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