From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751356AbdBZTzn (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2017 14:55:43 -0500 Received: from mail.gw90.de ([188.40.100.199]:56414 "EHLO mail.gw90.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751221AbdBZTzm (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2017 14:55:42 -0500 Message-ID: <1488134962.2850.11.camel@users.sourceforge.net> Subject: OT: Crowdfunding to port OpenBMC to Asus KGPE-D16 From: Paul Menzel To: openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Timothy Pearson , Martin Roth , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 19:49:22 +0100 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-fzs9ygHh65UPmajn4vDk" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.5-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-fzs9ygHh65UPmajn4vDk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Please CC me, as I am not subscribed.] Dear OpenBMC people, If you haven=E2=80=99t 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. >=20 > If you would like to help get this port started, please contact Martin > Roth (gaumless@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! >=20 > 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=E2=80=99t or don=E2=80=99t want to spend= money, it=E2=80=99d 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]=C2=A0https://twitter.com/RaptorEng/status/833738989840584704 --=-fzs9ygHh65UPmajn4vDk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQQ8+w9d414FAVARIpk9fVorbA4dWAUCWLMjMgAKCRA9fVorbA4d WOa4AJoDZtv1VL/XP7zFlAoFeThdxu93TgCfY03NOnzC6pmGzl5KP6PJcHGuIIg= =+duc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-fzs9ygHh65UPmajn4vDk--