[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux Ships with Motorola's Sandpoint: Press Release 2003 10/21

[Mike Murphree]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:43:01AM -0600, Media Relations wrote:
> TERRA SOFT SOLUTIONS' YELLOW DOG LINUX SHIPS WITH MOTOROLA'S SANDPOINT 
> EVALUATION BOARD FOR POWERPC(r) PROCESSOR PLATFORMS
> 
> Loveland, Colorado -- 21 October 2003 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the 
> leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, today announced that 
> its Yellow Dog Linux is shipping with Motorola's Sandpoint evaluation board 
> as part of an enhanced system package for Motorola PowerPC(r) processor-based 
> systems.

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> The Sandpoint evaluation system provides an example that can be used in 
> designing other systems based on implementations of the PowerPC instruction 
> set architecture, and a platform for developing and debugging Linux and other 
> software for these processors and associated bridge chips.
> 
> The motherboard inside the Sandpoint evaluation system is an ATX form factor 
> with PCI Mezzanine (PMC) connectors that accept a processor module. Each PMC 
> includes at least 64MByte of SDRAM. 'DINK32' debug monitor software is also 
> provided with the system.

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Interesting announcement, does it work with the slightly older but similar
Motorola Yellowknife boards?   I already have a couple of those...

What is being used for a bootloader as DINK32 is somewhat limited in its
capabilities?

Mike