[Please CC me, as I am not subscribed.] Dear OpenBMC people,
If you haven’t heard yet, there is a crowdfunding campaign going on to fund a port of OpenBMC to the Asus KGPE-D16 [1]. The free firmware coreboot [2] runs on that board, and no BLOBs have to be used with it. Having OpenBMC run on that board, would be the last step, to have a fully free, owner-controlled server mainboard. I am citing a message from Timothy to the coreboot mailing list below from February 6th, 2017 [3]. > As of today, we have $10,250 pledged out of $20,000 required to start > work on the OpenBMC support for KGPE-D16 systems using coreboot. Raptor > is, as before, contributing an additional $25,000+ toward development > should the $20,000 community goal be reached. > > If you would like to help get this port started, please contact Martin > Roth (gauml...@gmail.com) with information on what you would like to > pledge. This offer is time limited; we are looking to end the offer in > the next month or so, so if this is something you would like to see > please step up and contribute something to this goal! > > As a general reminder, the KGPE-D16 is the last, most powerful > owner-controllable X86 workstation / server class machine available. It > is still in production along with its Opteron CPUs, so it occupies a > unique position in coreboot's tree. Providing a libre BMC for this > system could help adoption of coreboot in server environments, > strengthening its position some in the market. As of today there are still $6,000 USD missing. As the coreboot community does not seem big enough to fund such a project, I am kindly asking you for support. If you can’t or don’t want to spend money, it’d be great if you could spread the word (Twitter message [4]). Thanks, Paul [1] https://www.raptorengineering.com/coreboot/kgpe-d16-bmc-port-offer.php [2] https://www.coreboot.org/ [3] https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2017-February/083176.html [4] https://twitter.com/RaptorEng/status/833738989840584704
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