Dear coreboot folks,
As many of you know, last week was not pretty [1]. Unfortunately, no solution was found.
Chances are slim, that the involved parties will get along in the future, but hopefully they will.
I had hoped, that the community would have been asked for help before to find a solution, that (all?) the money could not be raised.
Also, the coreboot project has the source code for the Asus KCMA-D8, and the REACTS infrastructure is run to build test the board to find regressions.
I propose, that the community steps in for Minifree(?) and raises the $15,000 instead to settle the debts, forget about it and go on.
I’ll take my 1000 € pledge for the TALOS workstation and put 500 € on top, so ten percents are covered.
Is anybody with me? Smaller amounts are as welcome as bigger. If nobody else wants to, I would note down the amounts, already transferred.
Having not done that before, I hope tax rules and regulations don’t make that difficult. Please advice how to best transfer the money.
I believe in our community, and I am hopeful to settle this.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] see the thread *ASUS KCMA-D8 workstation board port offer*
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On 01/26/2017 05:13 PM, Paul Menzel via coreboot wrote:
Dear coreboot folks,
As many of you know, last week was not pretty [1]. Unfortunately, no solution was found.
Chances are slim, that the involved parties will get along in the future, but hopefully they will.
I had hoped, that the community would have been asked for help before to find a solution, that (all?) the money could not be raised.
Also, the coreboot project has the source code for the Asus KCMA-D8, and the REACTS infrastructure is run to build test the board to find regressions.
I propose, that the community steps in for Minifree(?) and raises the $15,000 instead to settle the debts, forget about it and go on.
I’ll take my 1000 € pledge for the TALOS workstation and put 500 € on top, so ten percents are covered.
Is anybody with me? Smaller amounts are as welcome as bigger. If nobody else wants to, I would note down the amounts, already transferred.
Having not done that before, I hope tax rules and regulations don’t make that difficult. Please advice how to best transfer the money.
I believe in our community, and I am hopeful to settle this.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] see the thread *ASUS KCMA-D8 workstation board port offer*
First, thank you to Paul for making this suggestion; I appreciate the effort that went into it.
To sweeten the deal a bit, I'd be willing to throw in some overclocking code for the KCMA-D8 if the community made this happen. I developed the overclock on the side for use with my personal gaming rig, and have been running a single HE Opteron at a 4.2GHz core clock vs. the stock ~2.5GHz(?) base clock. Until now there really was no way to overclock the Opterons, but I was able to figure a method out with some fairly decent results.
Thanks!
- -- Timothy Pearson Raptor Engineering +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line) +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard) https://www.raptorengineering.com
Hi,
Thanks Paul for this peaceful and hopeful message. I'll follow you and would like to help with another 1000 €.
Thanks Timothy for your work !
Pierre
________________________________ From: coreboot coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org on behalf of Timothy Pearson tpearson@raptorengineering.com Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 12:21 AM To: Paul Menzel Cc: Paul Menzel via coreboot Subject: Re: [coreboot] Let’s solve the Asus KCMA-D8 mess
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On 01/26/2017 05:13 PM, Paul Menzel via coreboot wrote:
Dear coreboot folks,
As many of you know, last week was not pretty [1]. Unfortunately, no solution was found.
Chances are slim, that the involved parties will get along in the future, but hopefully they will.
I had hoped, that the community would have been asked for help before to find a solution, that (all?) the money could not be raised.
Also, the coreboot project has the source code for the Asus KCMA-D8, and the REACTS infrastructure is run to build test the board to find regressions.
I propose, that the community steps in for Minifree(?) and raises the $15,000 instead to settle the debts, forget about it and go on.
I’ll take my 1000 € pledge for the TALOS workstation and put 500 € on top, so ten percents are covered.
Is anybody with me? Smaller amounts are as welcome as bigger. If nobody else wants to, I would note down the amounts, already transferred.
Having not done that before, I hope tax rules and regulations don’t make that difficult. Please advice how to best transfer the money.
I believe in our community, and I am hopeful to settle this.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] see the thread *ASUS KCMA-D8 workstation board port offer*
First, thank you to Paul for making this suggestion; I appreciate the effort that went into it.
To sweeten the deal a bit, I'd be willing to throw in some overclocking code for the KCMA-D8 if the community made this happen. I developed the overclock on the side for use with my personal gaming rig, and have been running a single HE Opteron at a 4.2GHz core clock vs. the stock ~2.5GHz(?) base clock. Until now there really was no way to overclock the Opterons, but I was able to figure a method out with some fairly decent results.
Thanks!
- -- Timothy Pearson Raptor Engineering +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line) +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard) https://www.raptorengineering.com
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