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It's one of the selling points of IBM's OpenPOWER initiative - fully open source firmware (including an open source BMC). Certain types of customers are very in
by ajdlinux 9y ago
It's one of the selling points of IBM's OpenPOWER initiative - fully open source firmware (including an open source BMC). Certain types of customers are very interested in auditability of their entire stack for security purposes...
(disclaimer: I work for IBM)
- turblety 9y agoYeah I'm in. Just let me buy the darn thing :P I was so excited for the Talos Secure Workstation but then it was underfunded on it's campaign. I think I saw some OpenPOWER machines on IBM's website, but all the distributors have stopped selling them. Seems impossible to get hold of an OpenPOWER motherboard :( But yeah as soon as I can buy one I'm getting one to try it out. Mind you does Linux even compile on it yet?
- ajdlinux 9y agoI'm running Linux on a POWER8 server right now - Linux has compiled on powerpc machines since some point in the 90s, and IBM now treats Linux as a first-class citizen - for new chips we have Linux running under simulation well before we manufacture our silicon. As of POWER8, we now support running Linux bare-metal, and we sell machines with Linux bare-metal, Linux as a guest under PowerVM (our proprietary hypervisor) and Linux as a guest under PowerKVM (which as you can probably guess, is just a distribution to ship an open source KVM/libvirt hypervisor). https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/ https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/ No BSD support as yet ;)
- turblety 9y agoThat sounds awesome!! Where do you buy them? When I click Buy Now on IBM it just takes me to a contact form :( Do you know any shop that sells them retail? Edit: Ahh okay I see. The higher end ones need you to call IBM, but I think you can just buy the 6k one.