Dennis, to build those board just for the port, it does not make sense to me. after that, where we go? but your idea is good to start finding funding for that, see whether you can convince Bill. But business is money oriented, there has to be future and potential market for that.
On Feb 4, 2008 10:00 AM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote: > > > The thing is not hardware issue here, (we have lots of available, > > PowerMac, ODW, EFIKA), it is mainly we do not have yet a vendor that > > are mass manufacture powerpc desktop/server machine with a reasonable > > price. This makes the projects losing the interest from the community. > > > > I support what Tom mentioned and are doing right now: make port on the > > chrp (ODW, PowerMAC) working right now. most of us cannot help than > > just thinking of/discussing the hardware issue here. But it is the key > > factor to drive the port. The best place I can come up is power.org > > and I post something there. > > http://www.power.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1215 , support and have > > your related comments there! > > > > The community involvement is very important. yet it is hard to happen. > > most of the project leaders is sitting on top advising with little > > benefits at all. > > > > I say we sti2ck with what works best. The ODW is the best unit to proceed > with at this time and the onlt reasonable thing to do is to get some board > made. The question should be where are the design specs and can we get fifty > of these things made up? They will not be cheap at all. To get fifty boards > made you are most likely looking at $1000 per board plus some up front > prototype costs. > > Dennis > >
