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[Daniel Goller <dgoller AT satx.rr.com>]

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On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:20:41 -0800
Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:

> Paul Beel wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > While talking about PPC's today in IRC, I came across
> > a new system board, shown here:
> > http://www.genesippc.com/efika.php
> > 
> > I have noticed the owner of the company hanging around
> > the Amiga community web sites, so I e-mailed him to
> > let him know about Source Mage and that we have a PPC
> > version available.
> > 
> > He said if someone from SMGL would post at this URL,
> > he could send us a free board.
> > 
> > http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/projects.php?program=EFIKA
> > 
> > The company is Genesi and the guy I mentioned is Bill
> > Buck. He is based in the United States.
> 
> That's awesome. :) Now we just need someone with time to volunteer to
> work on an ISO for it with the Cauldron team.
> 
> -sandalle
> 

The EFIKA is targeting the embedded market, so you should not aim at 
targeting it with an ISO.
What we would need for the EFIKA is a uclibc based install (no, i am not 
volunteering), since glibc even with the specs of the efika would be an ill 
fitted combination (although i am sure plenty of people will do that, mostly 
due to lack of better knowledge).
I much rather hope genesi will consider my ODW and/or OSW entries. (check 
their projects once you are http://projects.ppczone.org )

Long story short, you need to think in the right direction for the EFIKA, and 
an ISO is just not the right one.

Just my $change,

Daniel

(My EFIKA entry is from back when i still worked for gentoo, i hope they 
start shipping boards soon.)
Looks like the OSW is now a "TetraPower 970MP" (Tetra for the 4 Cores it has)
Genesi has been good to opensource projects in the past with many free 
Pegasos (II) and stuff.
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