I may have misread him, so if I did, I"m sorry. It's been a weird couple of days. Maybe I'm thinking of them saying that they would release an image with the included CGMiner, and they never did?
I may have contributed to the confusion when I mentioned I used a xiangfu-designed OpenWRT binary with cgminer support with my Icarus. I apologize if anyone thought I was implying malfeasance on the Avalon development team's part. I have no idea if they are going to use bfgminer or cgminer or something completely different. I would suspect they will be supporting a lot of different options, not just in choice of miner.