Hope you can find the way to keep or sell all these coreboot-supported boards. Selling those which you don't personally need - shouldn't be hard: since the CPUs are much more resilient than motherboards - there should be a lot of old server's owners looking for a motherboard replacement, and the coreboot support is a great selling point, especially if you can preinstall a coreboot to their chips
On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 6:11 AM U'll Be King Of The Stars ullbeking@andrewnesbit.org wrote:
On 04/02/2021 05:11, Peter Stuge wrote:
U'll Be King Of The Stars wrote:
- Intel D510MO (my personal favorite of this list)
- Intel D945GCLF (and D945GCLF2, D945GCLF2D)
I have 945 bias. But it's mature, has received a lot of work, and I would expect it to work well or be easy to fix.
Thank you Peter for your opinion. I really value this (as well as Angel's information re: 410PT).
I've been preparing to get rid of many of these boards. The ideas I had for them were as follows. For example...
- A cluster of cheap, corebooted (or Librebooted) boards to experiment
with computational benefits of clustering. For various reasons, it was much more appealing to do this with corebooted boards.
- An interesting look at whether a hyperconverged storage structure is
feasbible.
I was going to settle on the D510MO, but I heard some rumors that put me off. I wish I could remember what these were, so I'll just forget I heard that there were rumors at all, and experiment with each model to get this started and help me decide what to keep and what not to keep... perhaps...
Selling these boards is a lot of effort and wouldn't bring in much money anyway. I may instead simply experiment with all of them and find a compact way of packing the away those that aren't used.
Most of the hardware that is causing problems is large, heavy, unused old servers.
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