From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from kom-mail1.kontron-modular.com (unknown [62.159.155.196]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62ACB67A6E for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 01:17:57 +1100 (EST) From: Stefan Nickl To: emre kara In-Reply-To: <20050304123923.78560.qmail@web25701.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20050304123923.78560.qmail@web25701.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:17:54 +0100 Message-Id: <1109945875.13682.56.camel@lucy.pep-kaufbeuren.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-embedded Subject: Re: Looking for prebuilt PPC board with miniPCI slot List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 12:39 +0000, emre kara wrote: > Hi Andriy; > I dont know what you should buy but I know what you > should not. > I ordered a Kontron's MPC8540 e2brain board, it took 3 > months to get the board, or how to say, only the > hardware of the board, but there was nothing important > (linux source etc) on the cd, then we asked for linux > source to Kontron, but they said us, it did'nt > released yet and it!ll not be avaible at least 3 > months. I am sorry for your bad experience with Kontron. I also understand it doesn't help you now if I tell you I'm sitting at the source here and would have happily provided you with a preliminary version of either a 2.4 or a 2.6 kernel for this board. About the delay of the hardware, the eb8540 is a recent product, and from a engineering point of view, you'll understand that marketing people tend to hype products even when they're not quite ready for large-scale production (which has changed as of this writing). I am advocating a stronger orientation towards the linux community for quite some time now, and it slowly seems to catch on, so please don't give up on us yet! -- Stefan Nickl Kontron Modular Computers