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At the end of the day, though, this is rather like a rooted iPhone, or running custom software on a TiVo via a hack. It's far from a full open stack and while it may have some utility / advantages for server operators, for the average person I don't know that there's much benefit.
Still, it's good to know the direction coreboot is taking in terms of the proprietary x86 hardware now flooding the market.
On 01/17/2018 04:04 PM, Trammell Hudson wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 07:29:18PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
[...] At 34C3 I was told by someone that a major vendor has been shipping servers with coreboot without announcing this, and I unfortunately neither remember the server model nor who told me about this.
Hi, Carl-Daniel. We chatted at CCC about LinuxBoot servers, which are somewhere in between. The design uses the SEC and PEI portions of the vendor firmware to do CPU and memory bringup, then hands control to a Linux kernel as a replacement for the DXE phase.
There is an effort to support the Open Compute hardware with the LinuxBoot firmware, and the newer OCP nodes already come with OpenBMC.
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