Re: Hoping to donate/sell a Talos II motherboard

On 01/03/2023 03:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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> On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, <jbranso@dismail.de
> <mailto:jbranso@dismail.de>> wrote:
> > Hello you fabulous developers!
> >
> > My friend has a spare Talos II motherboard that is currently sitting
> in his house
> > in Indiana USA collecting dust.
> >
> > https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ <https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/>
> >
> > I have convinced him to donate/sell it to an open source project or
> developer.
> >
> > I reached out to Richard Stallman, and he agreed to take the board.
> I am certain that the
> > FSF would put it to good use.  My friend and I have not yet decided,
> to whom we will give
> > the motherboard.  Is it possible that I could give it to someone or
> project, such that all
> > parties here would benefit?
>
> i am reasonably certain that Toshaan Bharvani would be
> prepared to do that although he would need to speak for
> himself.
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?



>
> the other option would be to donate it to the University of
> Oregon who already have POWER9 systems that are accessible
> to FOSS projects via the "OpenPOWER Hub".  cc'ing Sameer
> as well.
>
> (in case that wasn't clear: FOSS projects can *already*, right
> now, apply for access to POWER9 systems, do i have that right,
> Sameer?)
>
> > Is there any project or developer here that would be willing to take
> this motherboard and create
> > virtual machines that other projects could have access to?
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joshua Branson
> > FOSS enthusiast
> > https://gnucode.me <https://gnucode.me>
> >
> >
>
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