Re: Hoping to donate/sell a Talos II motherboard

[Tobias Platen]

I      would want to see running the Guix System on both POWER9 and the
libre-soc.  After I watched CPU tuning in GNU Guix[1], my first thaught
was to add the SVP64 binutils to Guix as a second CPU variant.

[1] https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/cpu_tuning_gnu_guix/

Tobias

On Wed, 2023-03-01 at 14:00 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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> On Wednesday, March 1, 2023, <jbranso@dismail.de> wrote:
> > March 1, 2023 5:11 AM, "Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh"
> > <toshaan@vantosh.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, please, I am interested.
> > > I would use it for PowerEL, LibreBMC and LibreSOC.
> > > All open source projects.
> > > Is this just a board or also a CPU?
> > 
> > It is just the motherboard.  :)
> 
> so someone has to spend maybe an additional...  USD... 1000? 
> 2000? to get it into a useful state.  minimum 128 GB preferably
> a lot more than that (in order to host multiple VMs),
> plus SSDs / HDDs, plus a minimum 1,000 watt power supply.
> 
> 
> > donate to the university of Oregon, whose contact is Toshaan
> > Bharvani.
> 
> ah no.
> 
> Two SEPARATE options:
> 
> * donate to University of Oregon, whose contact is Sameer Shende,
>   and if they agree they can add it to the multiple POWER9
>   systems which are already available to FOSS Groups through
>   the OpenPOWER Hub, have been for a few years now.
> 
> * donate to Vantosh Ltd, whose contact is Toshaan Bharvani,
>   who already also hosts POWER9 systems for FOSS Projects
>   (Libre-SOC in particular), and who is the maintainer of
>   the PowerEL distribution.
> 
> l.
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