[coreboot] Dead links - missing information?

[Timothy Pearson]

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On 08/05/2015 01:05 PM, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> On 07/29/2015 01:54 PM, Patrick Georgi wrote:
>>
>> One server board that is for sale and can be equipped with coreboot
>> would be the ASUS KGPE-D16.
> I looked at that - those are 5 years old now.. I would worry about the
> age of the capacitors.
> 
> I'm no longer seeing any MB - desktop or server that are from the last 2
> years? And no one selling such systems?
> 
> Also - I did some work with some UEFI BIOSs - I think there is an small
> OS running on top of everything?  (not something the lends itself to
> creating secure systems... ). Thus my quest for a coreboot system.
> 
> I had looked a few years ago and had the sense that there were rather
> current options - it appears that the climate has changed?  Or am I
> missing part of the bigger picture?
> 

The climate has changed drastically.  I ported coreboot to the ASUS
KFSN4-DRE and KGPE-D16 boards for the same reason (secure computing),
but I think x86 is now end of line for this task given that AMD is
building a mandatory Platform Security Processor (PSP) into the next
generation of Opterons, and that Intel has been forcing the Management
Engine (ME) down everyone's throats.

We are currently exploring migrating to IBM POWER8 in our next upgrade
cycle.  The hardware is expensive, but is at least as powerful as Intel
and much more secure.

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Timothy Pearson
Raptor Engineering
+1 (415) 727-8645
http://www.raptorengineeringinc.com
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