OT: Crowdfunding to port OpenBMC to Asus KGPE-D16

[Rick Altherr]

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.

Rick

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Paul Menzel <
paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> [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 (gaumless at 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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