* Power Management - Engineers
@ 2006-11-03 20:05 Guillaume FORTAINE
2006-11-05 11:30 ` Pavel Machek
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From: Guillaume FORTAINE @ 2006-11-03 20:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-pm
Hello,
Let me introduce myself : Guillaume FORTAINE, French engineer in informatics.
I would want to build a start up to sell mobile phones ( OEM Level ). I am
currently in discussions with investors.
We are currently searching people with a strong background in Power
Management.
Our business model is in its early stage, but we would be interested into a
break oppposite to the legacy one of our competitors who are nearly all
ARM based. Our choice is to use the PowerPC architecture : all the challenge
is here, that's why we need people with a strong background... This is a
very big project.
We are ready to sign a contract with people who will be able able to work on
the Power Management issues of the overall design.
We look forward to your answer,
Best Regards,
Guillaume
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* Re: Power Management - Engineers
2006-11-03 20:05 Power Management - Engineers Guillaume FORTAINE
@ 2006-11-05 11:30 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-05 22:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-11-06 18:40 ` Jon Loeliger
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From: Pavel Machek @ 2006-11-05 11:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Guillaume FORTAINE; +Cc: linux-pm
Hi!
>
> Let me introduce myself : Guillaume FORTAINE, French engineer in informatics.
> I would want to build a start up to sell mobile phones ( OEM Level ). I am
> currently in discussions with investors.
>
> We are currently searching people with a strong background in Power
> Management.
>
> Our business model is in its early stage, but we would be interested into a
> break oppposite to the legacy one of our competitors who are nearly all
> ARM based. Our choice is to use the PowerPC architecture : all the challenge
> is here, that's why we need people with a strong background... This is a
> very big project.
Hmm... Why would you want to use ppc? I thought ppc is dead, and there
are good reason everyone uses arm...
Pavel
--
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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* Re: Power Management - Engineers
2006-11-05 11:30 ` Pavel Machek
@ 2006-11-05 22:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-11-05 22:29 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-06 7:39 ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-11-06 18:40 ` Jon Loeliger
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From: Paul Mackerras @ 2006-11-05 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pavel Machek; +Cc: Guillaume FORTAINE, linux-pm
Pavel Machek writes:
> Hmm... Why would you want to use ppc? I thought ppc is dead
I guess you forgot to inform IBM, Freescale, AMCC, Sony, Toshiba,
Microsoft etc. of that... :)
PowerPC is very much alive. It was a shame that Apple stopped using
PowerPC, but they were only one manufacturer among many.
Paul.
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* Re: Power Management - Engineers
2006-11-05 22:11 ` Paul Mackerras
@ 2006-11-05 22:29 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-06 7:39 ` Nigel Cunningham
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From: Pavel Machek @ 2006-11-05 22:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Mackerras; +Cc: Guillaume FORTAINE, linux-pm
Hi!
> > Hmm... Why would you want to use ppc? I thought ppc is dead
>
> I guess you forgot to inform IBM, Freescale, AMCC, Sony, Toshiba,
> Microsoft etc. of that... :)
Ok, do you have email contacts? ;-)..
> PowerPC is very much alive. It was a shame that Apple stopped using
> PowerPC, but they were only one manufacturer among many.
Ok, there probably still are uses for powerpc left.... but if someone
tried to sell you a cellphone with "hey, this is not an ordinary
cellphone, this one does not run stupid arm, this one runs great power
pc" ... what would you tell him?
Switch from arm to ppc is as hard as a crosscompile, and I do not
think PowerPC is significantly different from ARM for cellphone use.
Pavel
--
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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* Re: Power Management - Engineers
2006-11-05 22:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-11-05 22:29 ` Pavel Machek
@ 2006-11-06 7:39 ` Nigel Cunningham
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From: Nigel Cunningham @ 2006-11-06 7:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Mackerras; +Cc: Guillaume FORTAINE, linux-pm, Pavel Machek
Hi.
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 09:11 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Pavel Machek writes:
>
> > Hmm... Why would you want to use ppc? I thought ppc is dead
>
> I guess you forgot to inform IBM, Freescale, AMCC, Sony, Toshiba,
> Microsoft etc. of that... :)
>
> PowerPC is very much alive. It was a shame that Apple stopped using
> PowerPC, but they were only one manufacturer among many.
Also Cyclades^WAvocent, so ppc is in lots of remote management hardware
out there.
Regards,
Nigel
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* Re: Power Management - Engineers
2006-11-05 11:30 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-05 22:11 ` Paul Mackerras
@ 2006-11-06 18:40 ` Jon Loeliger
2006-11-06 21:21 ` Pavel Machek
1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Jon Loeliger @ 2006-11-06 18:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pavel Machek; +Cc: Guillaume FORTAINE, linux-pm
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 05:30, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> Hmm... Why would you want to use ppc? I thought ppc is dead, and there
> are good reason everyone uses arm...
> Pave
Actually, PowerPC is very much alive; thanks for asking.
And, incidentally, present on this list as well.
jdl
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* Re: Power Management - Engineers
2006-11-06 18:40 ` Jon Loeliger
@ 2006-11-06 21:21 ` Pavel Machek
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From: Pavel Machek @ 2006-11-06 21:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jon Loeliger; +Cc: Guillaume FORTAINE, linux-pm
Hi!
> > Hmm... Why would you want to use ppc? I thought ppc is dead, and there
> > are good reason everyone uses arm...
> > Pave
>
> Actually, PowerPC is very much alive; thanks for asking.
> And, incidentally, present on this list as well.
Ok, I remember freescale presentations... but ppc's target was bigger
than cellphones, right?
Or where can I get my ppc cellphone? ;-).
Pavel
(currently running Linux on ancient Siemens
SX1 cellphone, ARM/OMAP based)
--
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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* Re: Power Management - Engineers
@ 2006-11-06 1:02 Scott E. Preece
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From: Scott E. Preece @ 2006-11-06 1:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pavel; +Cc: linux-pm, guillaume.fortaine
I believe the PPC still does pretty well in embedded design wins, though
I don't think it's particularly popular in cellphone designs. I heard it
was very popular in embedded controller applications (like automotive
stuff) a few years ago, though I haven't been looking at such statistics
for some time...
scott
| From linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org Sun Nov 5 16:35:05 2006
|
| Hi!
|
| > > Hmm... Why would you want to use ppc? I thought ppc is dead
| >
| > I guess you forgot to inform IBM, Freescale, AMCC, Sony, Toshiba,
| > Microsoft etc. of that... :)
|
| Ok, do you have email contacts? ;-)..
|
| > PowerPC is very much alive. It was a shame that Apple stopped using
| > PowerPC, but they were only one manufacturer among many.
|
| Ok, there probably still are uses for powerpc left.... but if someone
| tried to sell you a cellphone with "hey, this is not an ordinary
| cellphone, this one does not run stupid arm, this one runs great power
| pc" ... what would you tell him?
|
| Switch from arm to ppc is as hard as a crosscompile, and I do not
| think PowerPC is significantly different from ARM for cellphone use.
|
| Pavel
| --
| (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
| (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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