Thoughts dereferenced from the scratchpad noise.

Published at October 28, 2021 · Michał Żygowski · 11 min read

Have you ever thought about securing the boot process of your computer? No? This post will compare the available open source boot process hardening projects and explain the importance of signing and protection the software/operating system you launch. You will also get to know how the boot process may be secured even further and with the incoming Fobnail security token....

Categories: firmware security

fTPM vs dTPM

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....

Categories: firmware hardware security

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

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....

Categories: firmware hardware

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

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