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Published at October 8, 2021 · Michał Kopeć · 5 min read
An introduction to TPMs. Let's explore the differences between common implementations of TPMs and how they might matter to you....
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Open Source Firmware on AMD Milan server processors
Published at September 9, 2021 · Michał Żygowski · 6 min read
There were times where AMD was actively supporting open source firmware ecosystem by providing silicon initialization code. With a few years break AMD is now trying to support open source firmware again with the mobile platform like Chromebooks. However, the recent achievements have made everybody think that open source firmware is also possible on servers....
Categories: firmware
Comparing popular CI/CD tools for on-premise configuration
Published at August 26, 2021 · Piotr Konkol · Artur Raglis · 4 min read
Comparing CI/CD tools: Drone, Buildbot, Tekton, Concourse. Self-hosted and open-source alternatives to Jenkins...
Categories: app-dev
OSF vPub (vBeer) - what a fun event!
Published at July 1, 2021 · Mike Banon · 2 min read
Our 2nd OSF vPub gathering was really fun and interesting - together with Richard Stallman as our honored guest!...
Categories: firmware miscellaneous
fwupd on FreeBSD - Status Update
Published at June 14, 2021 · Michał Kopeć · 5 min read
As the fwupd port for FreeBSD nears completion, let's take a look at the biggest challenges we faced and how we managed to overcome them....
Categories: firmware
Open Compute Open System Firmware (OCP OSF) and its' importance
Published at June 10, 2021 · Piotr Król · 6 min read
Let's figure out what is OCP Open System Firmware, see how it relates to the Open Source Firmware (OSF) - and why it is important for your company to have one running on your product....
Categories: firmware miscellaneous
Dell OptiPlex and coreboot - a story about porting cursed hardware (part 2)
Published at June 1, 2021 · Michał Żygowski · 10 min read
This post is a second part of the series which tells a story about porting Dell OptiPlex 9010 workstation to open-source firmware - coreboot. What was simple is long past us in the first part of the series. This time we are taking a deeper dive into the technical aspects of Environmental Controller reverse engineering and locating the problem with machine not booting after AC loss....
Categories: firmware
First impressions on the beta BeagleV - affordable RISC-V SBC
Published at May 6, 2021 · Maciej Pijanowski · 11 min read
BeagleV is the first affordable RISC-V SBC designed to run Linux. It is fully open-source with open-source software, open hardware design and RISC-V open architecture. This blog post presents the basic functionality of the first batch of the available beta samples released to the community....
Right to Repair - and why is it important?
Published at April 30, 2021 · Mike Banon · 4 min read
Let's observe the struggles of today's repairman, why a right to repair is important and how 3mdeb can help....
Categories: firmware hardware miscellaneous
Yocto Project and its components as the Reference OS for Dasharo
Published at April 22, 2021 · Maciej Pijanowski · 4 min read
Let's dive into the most frequently asked questions regarding Dasharo products based on Yocto Project - this blog post will answer what is Yocto and what are the reasons for choosing such a solution...