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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

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...

Categories: firmware os-dev security

Thoughts on OSFC 2020 – day 2 and 3

Published at April 14, 2021 · Kamila Banecka · 8 min read

Lets share some thoughts that evolved during the OSFC 2020 talks and send kudos to many people who made this conference happen....

Categories: firmware

The backdoor to your firmware 2

Published at March 25, 2021 · Anastazja Lapanova · 6 min read

Firmware vulnerabilities in the light of recent attacks as a backdoor of the firmware - part 2...

Categories: firmware security

Creating ports for BSD distributions

Published at March 15, 2021 · Norbert Kamiński · Piotr Konkol · 8 min read

In this blog post, we will present how to build packages for FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Also, we will show you how to create CI for FreeBSD distribution with the use of GitHub action....

Categories: firmware

The backdoor to your firmware

Published at March 12, 2021 · Anastazja Lapanova · 5 min read

Firmware vulnerabilities in the light of recent attacks as a backdoor of the firmware...

Categories: firmware security

OSF vPub (vBeer) - what a fun event!

Published at February 23, 2021 · Mike Banon · 2 min read

We've just had our first OSF vPub gathering, with lots of fun & really interesting talk about the open-source firmware/hardware with 50 masters from all over the world!...

Categories: firmware miscellaneous

Manual vs Automated Testing

Published at February 18, 2021 · Piotr Konkol · Kamila Banecka · 5 min read

Pros and cons of automated testing and the process of performing transparent validation....

Categories: firmware security

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