Kiwa crap and crap accesories

I got this pair of efika boards on a flea market some years ago, they came with the angle adapter to connect AGP cards on the PCI port?! (cool) they both boot fine, i have only tested the morphos trial image and it boots fine, this requires a laptop ide hard disk for storage, it works fine with ide to sata or cf adapters.

I want to get linux running on one just because, i tried void last year but never got it to boot, so ill probably go back to old debian.

Info
Source	Flea Market
Kind	SBC
Sold/For sale?	No
CPU	Freescale MPC5200B PowerPC SOC @ 400Mhz (32 bits)
RAM	128MB Soldered, i tried to upgrade one but it never worked, maybe i was missing something
Dependencies	it needs an ATX PSU to work, it can work without a video card just fine over serial
Installed On	N/A
Last Tested	May/2023
Retroweb	N/A

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Morphos runs fine here, but it's paid software and it's pretty expensive to just work on only one device, pretty big L + ratio as the young people say.
i tried the pci to agp adapter once on a PC and i killed the motherboard!
the device works fine with any kind of PC video card, only some are supported on Morphos though, and you have to be careful about size, a card too big will sit weird on top of the network card usb thing.
These are pretty picky with the USB drive you use for booting, i recommend a 4gb thumbdrive from like 15 years ago to be sucessfull.

Drivers	Chip ID	Links
Manual		EN ES DE
Efika Device tree Supplement		13-11-2007 18-10-2007 21-09-2007
BIOS	Openfirmware /run: ok boot scsi:0 update_e_20070122	download firmware 1.3 20070122
official page	English Site	download the mirror
Morphos 3	Download from the official page if you want, this is the version i tested	This boots fine here
Efika PPC SuSE "Quick And Easy"	"This page holds an official release of the Quick and Easy SuSE Installation originally documented by Peter Czanik."	SuSE Demo Image Efika SuSE Errata Efika Suse Install Guide Suse Installer and rescue kernel Suse Installer and rescue kernel Suse Demo Kernel

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