[coreboot] Re: Providing an Interface to load PSE FW for Intel Elkhart Lake Platform

2021-11-05 Thread Nico Huber
On 05.11.21 18:58, Martin Roth wrote: > > Oct 31, 2021, 15:03 by nic...@gmx.de: > >> Hi Sheng, >> >> On 27.10.21 06:29, Tan, Lean Sheng wrote: >> >>> As mentioned earlier the Firmware of the PSE needs to be loaded at boot >>> time of the host CPU, this is mandatory for Elkhart Lake. >>> >> ... >>

[coreboot] First commercially available coreboot for Intel Xeon-SP

2021-11-05 Thread Jonathan Zhang
Hi, We now have the first commercially available coreboot solution for servers based on Intel Xeon-SP processor (specifically CooperLake Scalable Processor). WW OCP DeltaLake server (with OSF being part of it) was OCP accepted; Also the server and its OSF solution are on market, backed by WW and

[coreboot] Re: Another year, another blob?

2021-11-05 Thread Patrick Georgi via coreboot
Am Fr., 5. Nov. 2021 um 19:11 Uhr schrieb ron minnich : > e.g., the KGPE-D16 would get a 100% > except for the VGABIOS. > Marketing types are sensitive to numbers like this: we could > prominently display these numbers on coreboot.org > They're also pretty sensitive about any kind of mistake

[coreboot] Re: Another year, another blob?

2021-11-05 Thread Patrick Georgi via coreboot
Am Fr., 5. Nov. 2021 um 18:16 Uhr schrieb Martin Roth via coreboot < coreboot@coreboot.org>: > The current reality is that binary blobs are needed for almost every > platform in coreboot. I believe the coreboot leadership is united behind > the unfortunate reality that allowing these blobs is a

[coreboot] 03 November 2021 - coreboot Leadership meeting minutes

2021-11-05 Thread Martin Roth via coreboot
# 03 November 2021 - coreboot Leadership meeting minutes Edited for clarity and formatting. * Attendees: Christian Walter, David Hendricks, Felix Held, Felix Singer, Jason Glenesk, Jay Talbott, Martin Roth, Matt DeVillier, Patrick Georgi, Piotr Król, Ron Minnich, Sean Rhodes, Stefan Reinauer,

[coreboot] Re: Another year, another blob?

2021-11-05 Thread ron minnich
I'd like to get back to a rating system. There's a really simple measure that I've never seen improved upon, namely, for a given firmware image, what fraction of the bits in that image come from open source code? e.g., the KGPE-D16 would get a 100%, and a typical laptop would get 0%. This is a

[coreboot] Re: Providing an Interface to load PSE FW for Intel Elkhart Lake Platform

2021-11-05 Thread Martin Roth via coreboot
Oct 31, 2021, 15:03 by nic...@gmx.de: > Hi Sheng, > > On 27.10.21 06:29, Tan, Lean Sheng wrote: > >> As mentioned earlier the Firmware of the PSE needs to be loaded at boot time >> of the host CPU, this is mandatory for Elkhart Lake. >> > ... > > so as far as I understand it this is not

[coreboot] Re: Another year, another blob?

2021-11-05 Thread Martin Roth via coreboot
Nov 4, 2021, 05:24 by pmen...@molgen.mpg.de: > On 20.10.21 14:24, Nico Huber wrote: > >> My proposal: >> How about we set up some guidelines how to proceed when adding support >> for a new platform that requires any blobs? My vague idea is as follows: >> Before the very first commit for such a