Hello,
I'd be happy to kick more than a few bucks towards hardware or other costs.
Just need to know where to send it.
I'll also drop a post over on r/Libreboot.
Sincerely,
-Matt
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 1:33 PM Timothy Pearson <
tpear...@raptorengineering.com> wrote:
> I'd be happy to assist as well with hardware. I have a spare fully
> functional KGPE-D16 with dual CPUs that can be donated to a US-side
> developer interested in keeping the native init alive, working, and
> in-tree. If enough functionality can be restored in coreboot master I can
> also reactivate the REACTS autotest for it -- it was shut off a long time
> ago due to coreboot master no longer reliably booting on the hardware, but
> remains mothballed for potential reactivation.
>
> The hardware is definitely showing its age, it's slow, power hungry, uses
> an ancient and very limited BMC (if you can get the module for it), and
> still requires AMD microcode binaries, but it's still the fastest open
> (sans microcode) x86 platform available anywhere.
>
> I've also got a stack of KFSN4-DRE boards (K8 era), but the K8 support was
> ripped out a while back IIRC. I can send these to good homes as well if
> there's interest. :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Vikings GmbH" <he...@vikings.net>
> > To: "Piotr Król" <piotr.k...@3mdeb.com>, insu...@riseup.net
> > Cc: "coreboot" <coreboot@coreboot.org>, "Timothy Pearson" <
> tpear...@raptorengineering.com>, "Andrew Luke Nesbit"
> > <ullbek...@andrewnesbit.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 4:50:35 AM
> > Subject: Re: KGPE-D16 maintainership
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:19:42 +0200
> > Piotr Król <piotr.k...@3mdeb.com> wrote:
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> we see a lot of attention around KGPE-D16 maintainership problems.
> >> After discussion with Thierry Laurion (Insurgo) at OSFC2019 3mdeb
> >> decided to help in maintaining that platform by organizing crowd
> >> founding campaign or getting founds in other ways (direct sponsors).
> >>
> >> Since we are based in Poland there is chance that even with small
> >> contribution from community we would be able to cover the costs.
> >>
> >> Ideal plan would be to have structure similar to what we maintain for
> >> PC Engines:
> >> https://pcengines.github.io/
> >> Where we providing signed and reproducible binaries every month and
> >> keep as close to mainline as possible. Of course if development will
> >> be active, then there always would be delta of patches held in review.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately we don't have hardware. During OSFC 2019 Stefan left one
> >> board, but it was too late (and probably too expensive) for us to
> >> organize any shipment to Poland. We looking to have 2 mainboards one
> >> for development and one in our automated regression testing
> >> environment. Of course we will start even with just one.
> >
> > I would be pleased if Vikings could help out by sending two KGPE-D16
> > systems for this purpose. You can contact me at this address for
> > details.
> >
> > Perhaps someone in CC will also be able to help out one way or the
> > other.
> >
> >> If anyone is willing to help in founding, sponsoring hardware or by
> >> code development and testing we would be very grateful.
> >>
> >> Please copy other people and share this post wherever is necessary to
> >> keep this platform alive. Positive feedback will help things rolling.
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> - --
> >> Piotr Król
> >> Embedded Systems Consultant
> >> GPG: B2EE71E967AA9E4C
> >> https://3mdeb.com | @3mdeb_com
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Thomas Umbach
> >
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