[coreboot] Good OCP nodes for development?

[ron minnich]

What Power board would you recommend for this test?

ron

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 7:07 PM Timothy Pearson <
tpearson at raptorengineeringinc.com> wrote:

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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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