Dear Daniel and Timothy,
I hope you don't mind me coming into the middle of your conversation and taking this offline.
See below for comments...
On 05/11/2018 21:45, Timothy Pearson wrote:
On 11/05/2018 03:44 PM, Daniel Gröber wrote:
Yeah, sure. I'm just making these to scratch my own itch. Didn't think there'd be enough demand for you guys to bother producing them though?
We have some internal demand still; not looking high volume at all but maybe whip up a few spares while we're at it? :-)
The background to my attempt is as follows. I had a similar intention, i.e., to make some to scratch my own itch. At the time I was starting work on coreboot and OpenBMC, but unfortunately I fell very ill over New Year 2017/2018. After that, during any time that I wasn't at work, I was looking for a new job. I finally have found one that has been good. It's been only a couple of weeks so far, and we're hoping it stays this good.
During that time I had to stop work on coreboot and OpenBMC and focus on my health, family, and (paid!) work. Now, finally, I am starting to get freed up enough to resume this project.
Timothy: I was intending on writing to you during that time to ask for some advice. I hope still to do so in the near future, and I hope you won't mind.
Daniel: Please could you add me to your list of "interested people"? I am very keen to go in with a community order.
In one of my previous emails I offered to contribute financially to help offset out-of-pocket costs. FYI, I am not representing anybody except myself. There were no ulterior motives to my offer. I have no agenda.
I'm able to offer you a few ASMB5-iKVM modules to help you continue your experiments if this is helpful. (And possibly one ASMB4-iKVM if I can find a spare.) Gratis, of course. And to keep.
I mentioned in that previous message that I wanted to do something almost exactly the same as what you have produced earlier this year. Including releasing the designs in a libre-friendly way. The D16 I had at the time was insufficient for methodical, analytical experimentation. Thank you for all your work in making this happen sooner rather than later.
From my experience and the messages I received when I was working on
OpenBMC, there are indeed a lot of people who would be interested in good quality clones of these modules.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
Kind regards,
Andrew