[coreboot] Good OCP nodes for development?

[Timothy Pearson]

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On 09/26/2015 03:18 PM, ron minnich wrote:
> I just joined the open compute project as an individual member. Anybody
> have some idea on what type of their nodes and which vendor are good to
> look at for coreboot?
> 
> I realize OCP is not a coreboot user (I had that discussion with them
> about 5 years ago and they went with conventional wisdom, sadly,
> although I expect one of the CPU providers was unfriendly about
> coreboot) but I'm curious as to what it would take to make it work.
> 
> thanks
> 
> ron
> 

Anything x86 is going to be somewhat unfriendly due to the heavy push
for Secure Boot and the ensuing TiVo-ization / general platform
lockdown.  Intel uses the Management Engine for this purpose, while AMD
uses the Platform Security Processor.

We have been in talks with IBM regarding OpenPOWER and to be honest
that's probably the direction to be looking at this point.  The entire
chip is open with the exception of the Self Boot Engine, and IBM's
engineers are very open to the idea of custom firmware development.

Just my $0.02. :-)

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