Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] We're looking for Linux beta testers for our new PowerPC board

[Anthony G. Basile]

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


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