[coreboot] Server systems shipped with coreboot

[Timothy Pearson]

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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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