mention raptorcs sponsorship

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 # Sponsorship by RaptorCS with a TALOS II Workstation
 
-TODO http://lists.libre-riscv.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/2020-March/005291.html
+With many thanks to Timothy from
+[RaptorCS](https://raptorcs.com), we've a new shiny
+online server that needs
+[setting up](http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265).
+This machine is not just a "nice-to-have", it's actually essential for
+us to be able to verify against.  As you can see in the bugreport, the idea
+is to bootstrap our way from running IEEE754 FP on a *POWER* system
+(using typically gnu libm), verifying Jacob's algorithmic FP library
+particularly and specifically for its rounding modes and exception modes.
+
+Once that is done, then apart from having a general-purpose library that
+is compliant with POWER IEEE754 which *anyone else can use*, we can use
+that to run unit tests against our[
+hardware IEEE754 FP library](https://git.libre-riscv.org/?p=ieee754fpu.git;a=summary) -
+again, a resource that anyone may use in any arbitrary project - verifying
+that it is also correct.  This stepping-stone "bootstrap" method we are
+deploying all over the place, however to do so we need access to resources
+that have correctly-compliant implementations in the first place.  Thus,
+the critical importance of access to a TALOS II POWER9 workstation.
 
 # Epic Megagrants