@fishy_fis

I can understand you not reeding the whole thing, this thread is huge! The donations simply give us the money to buy the evaluation board+schematics etc., the board goes to Hyperion for initial porting and the schematics etc. are used to create the updated board without the service processor and with FW800 on the AMD8111 southbreidges 33mhz PCI port.
Once we have that we can get OS4 at east running on it, not even to the standard of the pre-release but what was shown at demos arround the country, even if it has to be booted off another machine (Though I see no reason why a SIL IDE PCI controller card couldn't be used) and we ccan take this to potential investors.
I do not expect the community to pay (oughtright) for production, that is for me and investors (one reason why i am not buying the board, my money will almost certainly be sued to pay for the preproduction boards.
If the boards were to be made 100 at a time then it would cost ~$3375 per board which means $337,500 per batch excluding costs such as transport. Note we will use a much higher volume than 100 at a time as the cost is simply to high. By my estimates at 10,000 is will cost $2000 per board (~£1000) but that doesn't factor in either the removal of certain components such as the service processor and 10/100 PHY's etc. or the addition of the FW800 chips.