Well this sure looks interesting. I'll definitely be following this.
I am following and will be interested in mining when it starts.
Thank you for taking the time to read it all!
Will an AMD miner be the only option available or will some love be shown to the many Nvidia card miners?
The miner is a fork of an older version of cgminer with a rewritten kernel. It has been built for both AMD and nVidia cards, but it is likely that an optimized miner for nVidia cards will take a little finesse and a fork of ccminer.