<div dir="ltr">I replied to Raptor's tweet asking why they preferred Facebook's OpenBMC over the IBM one. I find it odd that you are asking developers on the latter to fund development for the former.<div><br></div><div>Rick</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Paul Menzel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[Please CC me, as I am not subscribed.]<br>
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Dear OpenBMC people,<br>
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If you haven’t heard yet, there is a crowdfunding campaign going on to<br>
fund a port of OpenBMC to the Asus KGPE-D16 [1].<br>
<br>
The free firmware coreboot [2] runs on that board, and no BLOBs have to<br>
be used with it. Having OpenBMC run on that board, would be the last<br>
step, to have a fully free, owner-controlled server mainboard. I am<br>
citing a message from Timothy to the coreboot mailing list below from<br>
February 6th, 2017 [3].<br>
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> As of today, we have $10,250 pledged out of $20,000 required to start<br>
> work on the OpenBMC support for KGPE-D16 systems using coreboot. Raptor<br>
> is, as before, contributing an additional $25,000+ toward development<br>
> should the $20,000 community goal be reached.<br>
><br>
> If you would like to help get this port started, please contact Martin<br>
> Roth (<a href="mailto:gaumless@gmail.com">gaumless@gmail.com</a>) with information on what you would like to<br>
> pledge. This offer is time limited; we are looking to end the offer in<br>
> the next month or so, so if this is something you would like to see<br>
> please step up and contribute something to this goal!<br>
><br>
> As a general reminder, the KGPE-D16 is the last, most powerful<br>
> owner-controllable X86 workstation / server class machine available. It<br>
> is still in production along with its Opteron CPUs, so it occupies a<br>
> unique position in coreboot's tree. Providing a libre BMC for this<br>
> system could help adoption of coreboot in server environments,<br>
> strengthening its position some in the market.<br>
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As of today there are still $6,000 USD missing. As the coreboot<br>
community does not seem big enough to fund such a project, I am kindly<br>
asking you for support. If you can’t or don’t want to spend money, it’d<br>
be great if you could spread the word (Twitter message [4]).<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
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[1] <a href="https://www.raptorengineering.com/coreboot/kgpe-d16-bmc-port-offer.php" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.raptorengineering.<wbr>com/coreboot/kgpe-d16-bmc-<wbr>port-offer.php</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://www.coreboot.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.coreboot.org/</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2017-February/083176.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.coreboot.org/<wbr>pipermail/coreboot/2017-<wbr>February/083176.html</a><br>
[4] <a href="https://twitter.com/RaptorEng/status/833738989840584704" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/<wbr>RaptorEng/status/<wbr>833738989840584704</a></blockquote></div><br></div>