[coreboot] Equus "WHITEBOX OPEN" servers ship with Coreboot/LinuxBoot

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 20:49:56 CEST 2018


i'm going to be talking to them.

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 11:36 AM David Hendricks <david.hendricks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm calling shenanigans on this. Their server datasheets pretty clearly
> specify an IBV-provided firmware solution, definitely NOT coreboot or
> LinuxBoot and definitely NOT open. I did hear thru the grapevine that
> they've been in contact with at least one OpenBMC developer, at least.
>
> So basically this is a lot of misleading marketing BS AFAICT (though I'd
> like to be proven wrong).
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Alberto Bursi <alberto.bursi at outlook.it>
> wrote:
>
>> There was an announcement [1] about a new line of servers called
>> WHITEBOX OPEN (yes, all caps)
>>
>> which appears to be about servers with Coreboot or Linuxboot and OpenBMC.
>>
>> Has anyone any experience with this company?
>>
>>
>> -Alberto
>>
>> 1. https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/06/prweb15571110.htm
>>
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