Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] We're looking for Linux beta testers for our new PowerPC board
"Anthony G. Basile" <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:06:35 -0500
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Excellent. I'm all about building uclibc gentoo stages and would love to produce one for ppc like I've done for mips, arm, amd64 and i686. So how do I apply? On 12/13/2013 07:59 AM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > Hi all, > > We're looking for Linux beta testers for our new PowerPC board. The new > board, codenamed Cyrus Plus, will be an replacement for the Nemo board > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOne_X1000). The revision 2.0 > prototype contains a Freescale P5020 CPU which is a 2 GHz, 64-bit > dual-core PowerPC SoC. The Cyrus Plus board will also accept the new > P5040 when it becomes commercially available in greater volume. This is > a 64-bit quad-core PowerPC Freescale CPU which operates up to 2.4 GHz. > As with Nemo, the Cyrus Plus motherboard has been custom designed to run > the latest version of AmigaOS 4 and will support multiple PowerPC Linux > distributions. > The deadline for applications is at the end of December. Successful beta > test applicants also have the option of having their name or nickname > added to the Cyrus Plus motherboard silkscreen. However, the deadline > for this option is earlier and is set the 15th of December. If you have > registered your interest in joining the Cyrus Plus beta team and have > not yet had a response from A-EON please send an email to > contact(at)a-eon.com. > > http://blog.a-eon.biz/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Marcin_sm.jpg > http://blog.a-eon.biz/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CyrusPlus.jpg > http://blog.a-eon.biz/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/varisys.jpg > http://blog.a-eon.biz/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Cyrus_Plus_bottom_name_smal2l.jpg > > http://www.a-eon.com/18-10-2013-3.pdf > > Rgds, > > Christian -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. Chair of Information Technology D'Youville College Buffalo, NY 14201 (716) 829-8197