(2/2) OpenPOWER: Raptor Engineering sells POWER9 workstations, that may soon be getting RYF certification. They're expensive as fuck, but probably the most powerful non-botnet computers that exist. Comparable to Xeons/Epyc. raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
There is also thread , which technically could make this a duplicate.
Jack Morgan
I like this one's title better it's the same one I used when I started this list on halfchan
OP thanks for making one of these here. There was another short-lived /hrt/ thread fairly recently where I decided to highlight the EOMA68 for ARM SBC. Mainly that's because I re-read the page and saw that it's going for all-the-way RYF cert.
Alexander Gomez
Pic related is the current status of Purism's Freedom Roadmap. Libreboot is getting closer!
Andrew Wright
Jesus fuck this site is slow! I guess i'll start highlighting more shit. lwn.net/Articles/738225/ This was a semi-recent addition to the list. It's an article about android, but towards the end they bring up chromebooks, and imply that the only thing stopping them from having fully open-source Mali drivers is one faggot in management at ARM. Everybody else loves the idea.
Jordan Price
Now for Cavium. There's some of their older MIPS work that can be found on EmbeddedPlanet, which is already in the list.
However, the big thing to consider that we haven't yet found an implementation of yet is their ARM ThunderX stuff. First pic related is Some information about them. Notice that the lower-end model has 8-16 cores at 2.5GHz. That sounds pretty respectable in my book, for our use as an ARM desktop. Of course they couldn't stop there, and decided to make one with 24-48 fucking cores! Same cockspeed!
Now the only issue here is that, of course, we haven't found anything that uses this yet. I did manage to find an ARM rackmount from PogoLinux (that site Bryan Lunduke loves to shill). pogolinux.com/quotes/editsys?sys_id=1069651 This would have two ThunderXes, for a total of 96 CORES
However that's the only one I found, and I don't know what kind of firmware this has.
Ethan Evans
Reminder about the x220 and the rest of the **20 series thinkpads might be getting libreboot soon. archive.is/o0ctz
Aaron Gomez
You can ask them about the firmware
Gavin Miller
Message sent. Now we wait.
Dylan Clark
In the message, I suggested that if their firmware really is open, they could advertise that as a feature.
Logan Anderson
MUHHHH FOSSSS
James Green
Yay someone replied to this thread. finally
William Adams
if anyone here want help about the asus c201 I can help, I'm posting from on.
(it is the chromebook that can be librebooted). Mine isn't because wifi (I couldn't get GPU to work correctly anyway)).
David Lopez
As usual, Peter Principle is the greatest hurdle of the electronics industry.
I think it's unlikely they can get away with free firmware, but they could release some of it for free with the blobs in it.
Michael Ramirez
Yeah I'm not expecting Libreboot on everything here, but I expect at least Coreboot-levels of freedom. For anything with a processor made by Intel Corporation or AMD, I accept nothing less than Libreboot, or in Purism's case, a commitment to getting there, just due to how shady those motherfuckers are. For other architectures. I will accept mostly free, but with blobs.
Jacob Robinson
UPDATE: Zhaoxin Semiconductor has been permanently removed. VIA has been temporarily removed (there's Coreboot potential).
References to Olimex and Beagle have been taken out for now.
Sebastian Allen
And PogoLinux hasn't gotten back to me yet.
Jordan Johnson
GUYS HOLY SHIT HOOOLY SHIIIT!
PogoLoonix got back to me! Apparently the dude is going on Bryan Lunduke soon to talk about the ME and whatnot. He seems very overly trusting of Intel, as can be seen from this snippet, but he does say that the ARM servers have gotten more popular, possibly because of the ME concerns.
Lincoln Flores
Every Loongson system past what Stallman used requires non-free firmware.
Aiden Brooks
No Raptor WILL sell POWER9 systems when if IBM gets off their asses and releases the POWER9 CPU for retail sale.
If IBM wasn't a completely useless company they would have capitalized on the INTEL/ME/MINIX hype that is going on now.
They where supposed to release the chips by the end of 2017 and not looking like that will happen. Any big delay and that may end up killing Raptor and tanking any hope of an open POWER9 market getting started.
Levi Mitchell
Daily reminder that firmware that is not actually modified in practice is as good as hardware. For example, your microwave might have some kind of flashable firmware capability, but that doesn't matter if it is normal that nobody touches it during the microwave's life.
Cooper Watson
Nice tranny thread
Owen Cruz
PC firmware is changed though, see linux-firmware or whatever. Also the microwave would still be very bad if it had networking.
Hunter Sanders
UPDATE: user on halfchan has provided a link to the OpenFirmware source code for Powerbooks, Powermacs, iBooks, and the like. They are now in the list. code.coreboot.org/p/openfirmware/source/tree/HEAD/
Logan Edwards
So tell me about the firmware that you can find in the Lemote computers that are able to run a free BIOS and Lignux.
Andrew Baker
No bosses no rulers.
Christopher Wood
If it has networking, it should be free as in freedom. If it doesn't, the firmware should have ability to downgrade and/or newer versions should possess trivially noticeable improvements over older versions.
Jason Sanchez
An update from Raptor to those who have pre-ordered Talos II systems for the original Q4 2017 window: (I asked when they were planning on shipping by, as I have a holiday coming up.)
Carson Sullivan
thanks for bringing this news to 8ch.
UPDATE: Added SPARC
Ryan Perry
I really hope TALOS makes it.
Joseph Cox
Same here. The whole "ship it with the older CPU now at no extra charge" thing seems very nice. I can tell they care about what they're doing here. This delay is all on IBM.
Benjamin Rivera
Not sure but I saw somewhere that IBM is plans on making consumer tech anytime soon. I hope it happens though (fuck off NSA)
