Timothy, Ubuntu Server is officially supporting Power8 ( https://www.ubuntu.com/ download/server/power8 ). Do you have insight if they will support Power9? Can we get a complete overview of all the I/O ports with Make and Model#. I see what looks like 4 SATA ports (in 2 different colors) on the board ( https://static.rptorcs.com/TL2B01/images/boardsmall.png ), but they are missing in the documentation ( https://raptorcs.com/ content/TL2B01/intro.html ). I would also like to know what make & model the SATA controller is and the model of the Broadcom NIC chip for example. Else keep up the good work. Thanks.
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Leah Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > > Timothy, I think that you should heavily promote the TALOS on the > coreboot list and also ask to have it promoted on the vendors page on > coreboot.org. The kind of people that want the hardware you sell are > here in the coreboot community in large numbers. Of course, this is > assuming that the leadership in coreboot would permit you to promote > it here. > > While not technically coreboot, it is indeed libre hardware that you > are selling, and does come with free boot firmware similar to coreboot. > > For this reason, I personally (with approval from other members of the > project) added you to libreboot.org aswell; see: > > https://libreboot.org/suppliers.html#raptor-engineering > https://libreboot.org/news/talos.html > > It's very important for the sake of the free software movement that > your TALOS II effort succeeds and thrives. > > On 31/08/17 19:07, Timothy Pearson wrote: > > On 08/31/2017 03:23 AM, Merlin Büge wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:09:51 -0400 "[email protected]" > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>> On 08/30/2017 03:28 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: > >>> > >>>>> POWER9 workstations are already coming on the market: > >>>>> > >>>>> https://raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ > >>>>> > >>>>> Note that IBM selling similar machines directly would > >>>>> likely be more expensive, not less, based on POWER8 price > >>>>> comparisons between IBM and other vendors. People purchase > >>>>> IBM branded products for extreme reliability, not to get > >>>>> cheap equipment... > >>> Damn that is sick as hell! you guys actually pulled it off! how > >>> did you get the funding? how have I not heard about this > >>> before? > > > >> Yeah, I wonder why it was not announced on this list. Although > >> not directly coreboot related, there probably is strong interest > >> here within this community. > > > >> There is also a channel on freenode: #talos-workstation > > > >> From what I've heard, pre-orders will close very soon, and it's > >> unknown if there will be a second production run of the > >> boards... > > > >> Timothy, maybe you could shed some light on it? > > > > > >> Cheers, > > > >> Merlin > > > > Well, I didn't want to spam the list; that was the main reason for > > the lack of a separate announcement here. OpenPOWER systems don't > > have a good reason to use coreboot versus the already open > > hostboot, and now with DDR4 in use on the POWER9 a coreboot port is > > going to be even harder than it would have been on POWER8. > > > > That being said, since there does appear to be interest, I'll > > mention that the Talos™ II pre-order system is largely driven by > > the fact that the POWER9 CPU has not yet been officially released. > > Raptor Computing Systems is the first vendor on the market and the > > only vendor to be shipping systems along with the first POWER9 CPUs > > scheduled for Q4 this year. Additionally, the Talos™ II retains > > unique features not found on any other OpenPOWER machine, including > > the ability to self-host critical programmable logic components. > > > > Cost is far less than Talos I largely due to a higher level of > > integration on the POWER9 CPU. TDPs are far less than POWER8 (90W > > for the bundled CPU) and we are confident that this machine is a > > worthy replacement for x86 workstation systems that are not locked > > to proprietary software. > > > > There's an FAQ page here which also goes into more detail: > > > > https://raptorcs.com/content/base/faq.html > > > > On our current schedule preorders for shipment this year close the > > middle of next month, so if you'd like to be among the first to > > have a Talos™ II please get your pre-order in ASAP! > > > > > > - -- > Leah Rowe > > Libreboot developer and project founder. > > Use free software. 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