Thanks, that's about what i expected. I had a hope that i could salvage some machines which need tweaked bios settings. I've reached out to Tyan, but they're fairly unhelpful
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 6:34 AM Nico Huber <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Michael, > > On 11.06.21 18:43, Michael Di Domenico wrote: > > what's the likely hood that i can get coreboot to run on a tyan gpu server? > > 100% if you are willing to do or to pay for what is necessary; with > one exception: Tyan might lock you out from running your own firmware > with some digital signature verification. I don't know if Tyan does > such things. > > > this one specifically: > > https://www.tyan.com/Barebones_FT77DB7109_B7109F77DV14HR-2T-NFZ > > That would be a huge endeavor. There is some sort of support for > Xeon SP platforms in coreboot, but with some caveats: it is heavily > blobbed and you need some layers of NDA to make use of the blobs; > from a developer perspective you don't get the usual coreboot > experience. I don't know these blobs in particular, but sometimes > making use of such blobs is more work than replacing them / rewriting > the whole support. > > Another thing to consider is that Intel likes to put a lot of server- > specific features into the firmware that would belong into the OS from > a coreboot perspective. Hence, the whole ecosystem isn't really pre- > pared for a real coreboot (that is not runtime resident) on such a > system. Well, it depends on the OS and what features one needs, I guess. > > Nico _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
