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 < tpearson@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!
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From: "Vikings GmbH" hello@vikings.net To: "Piotr Król" piotr.krol@3mdeb.com, insurgo@riseup.net Cc: "coreboot" coreboot@coreboot.org, "Timothy Pearson" <
tpearson@raptorengineering.com>, "Andrew Luke Nesbit"
ullbeking@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.krol@3mdeb.com wrote:
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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,
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