-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/05/2015 01:05 PM, Karl Schmidt wrote: > On 07/29/2015 01:54 PM, Patrick Georgi wrote: >> >> One server board that is for sale and can be equipped with coreboot >> would be the ASUS KGPE-D16. > I looked at that - those are 5 years old now.. I would worry about the > age of the capacitors. > > I'm no longer seeing any MB - desktop or server that are from the last 2 > years? And no one selling such systems? > > Also - I did some work with some UEFI BIOSs - I think there is an small > OS running on top of everything? (not something the lends itself to > creating secure systems... ). Thus my quest for a coreboot system. > > I had looked a few years ago and had the sense that there were rather > current options - it appears that the climate has changed? Or am I > missing part of the bigger picture? >
The climate has changed drastically. I ported coreboot to the ASUS KFSN4-DRE and KGPE-D16 boards for the same reason (secure computing), but I think x86 is now end of line for this task given that AMD is building a mandatory Platform Security Processor (PSP) into the next generation of Opterons, and that Intel has been forcing the Management Engine (ME) down everyone's throats. We are currently exploring migrating to IBM POWER8 in our next upgrade cycle. The hardware is expensive, but is at least as powerful as Intel and much more secure. - -- Timothy Pearson Raptor Engineering +1 (415) 727-8645 http://www.raptorengineeringinc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVwlLQAAoJEK+E3vEXDOFb5/cH/2kYscZ1qs2kT5NYARmuCFLu HbUoQf4oTUFiIAq+60/yc/ydsfH/28vW9dxbamaA/e6QCGa59wIM+UJCMycgdJ8q Vta1ZUcz678vcduyJ21FdSAEV6AL7ySEPmrhtSEsfWYfWOzrZIgHmO5oI3Goxm0T lKJUXiqaFQ9b/F8IpGWeRI0sDYXPI0PnGwyYJ2z09+PWS2Wzx208o8mBGt2rCOZu NFSeD2lMQuSWQIJIfRFMbMjTwPcuc8YhGTjUSIrwK8FX2h6vAgL/NnERMTikWvxw XUlPZM5EI0bhmptaLyH0T5foP98mxSD8qneqgT2gYu85pJ6DsCoj6GQFUfzJIFo= =cnwL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
