Alan Redhouse gives us a small update on the AmigaONE

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@CD32Freak

The BIOS is flashable just like in the TeronCX, but I see two problems:

Eyetech doesn't seem to have a full licence from SofTex (only evaluation),
and you can't call ~200 boards an evaluation run.

Hyperion wants to keep the flash-util closed, so noone can just reflash
a Teron to an A1.

There is offcourse still the possibilty that the BIOS isn't the only problem.

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@CD32Freak
Beeep wrong (atleast AFAIK :-P )

The TeronCX_MK2 (aka A1) has two ROMs:

a) a normal flash currently containing the evaluation-only SofTex.
b) a "real" ROM in a extra socket that will contain the dongle-code.

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@agafaster
Sad but true ....

If they really do a non-OpenFirmWare-compatible BIOS (as it seems atm)
they will close out all other OSes until these are adapted to it, you will
still get Linux but not the latest version (just like APUS-Linux) and you
can allmost forget all the real geek OSes.

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@Valan

We are not shipping the remainder of the dev boards (or any of the
user boards) until this code is complete because of the expense of
shipping update ROMs and chip changing tools. This is anticipated to
be towards the end of August.
 

He says that he hoped that the BIOS-replacement would be finished
by the end of August, and that the missing DEV-boards would be
delivered shortly afterwards, but no word (date) about the
consumer-A1.

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@agafaster
 :-D  :-D  sooner or later I get them all  :-D  :-D