Dasharo for Dell OptiPlex 7010 / 9010
Published at November 26, 2021 · Michał Żygowski · 8 min read
Open source firmware may be hundreds of times better than the proprietary one. On the example of Dell OptiPlex 7010 / 9010 we will show you the advantages of Dasharo firmware on this machine....
Categories: firmware
First impression on Nezha RISC-V SBC
Published at November 19, 2021 · Cezary Sobczak · 9 min read
Nezha is a AIoT development board customized by AWOL based on Allwinner's D1 chip. It is the world's first mass-produced development board that supports 64bit RISC-V instruction set and Linux system....
Fobnail vs other boot security projects
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....
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....
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
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