I think it is worth beginning this process, but I have never used these tools. I've seen the commercial equivalents, but never spent much time learning them because I didn't want to waste my time learning non-free software. (aka soon-to-be-dead software)
Does anyone know if the free tools we have available to us are capable of the job? I'd love to see free tools used to design this card. So for the last few days I've begun the process of learning pcb (from cvs).
A lot of work could be done now couldn't it? Do you guys know which chip you are going to use? There has been talk of Xilinx, is there a currently shipping part? Things should already be possible to get in place: where the memory goes, where the clocks and power go, etc. The PCI and/or AGP connectors and all the lines off of them. The VGA or DVI connectors and so on. It doesn't even look like there are those standard connectors in the library yet. (?) http://www.geda.seul.org/tools/symbols/library/index.html
At any rate, there's a mountain of work there so I thought I would ask if there are people on this list with that kind of background. It's unlikely that an effort of this size has been undertaken with completely free software, if it has, it's probably worth investigating the issues, software & methods they used to collaborate this kind of unique development project.
For me, I could write the firmware support (u-boot, linuxbios and maybe openfirmware) support and do powerpc work. As time permits of course.
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