On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Karl Schmidt <[email protected]> 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? > Some are, yes, but they come and go and may require some searching. Probably your best bet for a desktop is to get a Chromebox since that comes pre-loaded with coreboot and the PCH and CPU are well-supported. Check out the coreboot on Chromebooks community <https://plus.google.com/communities/112479827373921524726?e=-RedirectToSandbox> on G+ for some pointers on custom-built ROMs. For servers, I think there are some vendors who sell with coreboot pre-installed but only in volume. You might have better luck browsing the sources for a particular chipset you're interested in, buying one and replacing the vendor-provided firmware. The Asus KFSN4-DRE has been actively worked on recently and tested, as you can see from the Supported Motherboards <http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards> test waterfall. 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... ). There's nothing "small" about it, but yes, your general statement is accurate :-) 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? That's also pretty accurate. The momentum of coreboot development was largely on servers a few years ago. Now it seems most (but not all) of the work is geared toward mobile and embedded systems, a natural consequence of many coreboot contributors shifting in that direction as well. -- David Hendricks (dhendrix) Systems Software Engineer, Google Inc.
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