Is there a hardware specification for this project? Has there been any consideration as to which PowerPC processor will be used?
It will be a e6500 core, T208x from NXP
http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2015/10/towards-crowdfunding-campaign/
http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/power-architecture-processors/qoriq-power-architecture-processors/qoriq-t2080-and-t2081-multicore-communications-processors:T2080
http://www.nxp.com/video/qoriq-t2-family-introduction:OVERQORLQT2
here some news about t2080