What Power board would you recommend for this test? ron
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 7:07 PM Timothy Pearson < [email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/26/2015 03:18 PM, ron minnich wrote: > > I just joined the open compute project as an individual member. Anybody > > have some idea on what type of their nodes and which vendor are good to > > look at for coreboot? > > > > I realize OCP is not a coreboot user (I had that discussion with them > > about 5 years ago and they went with conventional wisdom, sadly, > > although I expect one of the CPU providers was unfriendly about > > coreboot) but I'm curious as to what it would take to make it work. > > > > thanks > > > > ron > > > > Anything x86 is going to be somewhat unfriendly due to the heavy push > for Secure Boot and the ensuing TiVo-ization / general platform > lockdown. Intel uses the Management Engine for this purpose, while AMD > uses the Platform Security Processor. > > We have been in talks with IBM regarding OpenPOWER and to be honest > that's probably the direction to be looking at this point. The entire > chip is open with the exception of the Self Boot Engine, and IBM's > engineers are very open to the idea of custom firmware development. > > Just my $0.02. :-) > > - -- > Timothy Pearson > Raptor Engineering > +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line) > +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard) > http://www.raptorengineeringinc.com > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWB09AAAoJEK+E3vEXDOFbdUEH/jzmlbD0+Uz60ZKJjGjF3L7X > zWMVFNTTmdjtvjrWWy0LEl5GCp1+oqjp2jKbQ1i20Q3rTG12Ehm70eYX2dghwiRQ > mXyzgdN3fE5QsX9ecDb7rkXsEqG28mKGiu4jbmQr/LtmXLVXiT9rC0djCi0oCvbS > d13JDwhqyRz/zSTgXSL0ji1vimYA1S6BZVOy/JqARD2aBGJjWpB5OUIqeOW3PLrd > AoI0FL8TYsa1RsBTSt0ioAnpodGTYI2Gx1rS9SJqCi7hyorVPoDo3E3/m0p3lz4X > R85wEkQfeE89Qy9kqUBFXerCGKKEPMDV1r37xlvWw262piSxm7OqAgSlnNY7wac= > =JNI2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
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