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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 "Taiidan@gmx.com"
>> <Taiidan@gmx.com> 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!
>
>

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