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>Right, who wants or benefits from open source firmware anyway. Their competition has open source firmware as well: https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/enabling-o
by Always_Anon 3y ago
>Right, who wants or benefits from open source firmware anyway.
Their competition has open source firmware as well:
https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/enabling-open-embedded-systems-management-on-poweredge-servers/ https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/enabling-open-embedded-syste...
- bcantrill 3y agoSo OpenBMC is fine (happy for them!), but having open firmware is much deeper and broader than that: yes, it's the service processor (in contrast to the BMC which is a closed part on Dell machines) -- but it's also the root-of-trust and (especially) the host CPU itself. We at Oxide have open source software from first instruction out of the AMD PSP; I elaborated more on our approach in my OSFC 2022 talk.[0] [0] https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-not-to-open-it-the-need-for-holistic-systems/ https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...
- Always_Anon 3y agoDell now ships with OpenBMC iDRACs and such. How does what you mention differ from the RoT in Dells? https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/hardware-root-trust/ https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/hardware-root-trust/
- c_o_n_v_e_x 3y agoDell uses trusted platform modules (TPM). It's a separate chipset than the BMC chipset. For a mostly open source solution, not only would you need open source BMC firmware, you must have an open source UEFI/BIOS/boot firmware like CoreBoot, LinuxBoot, Oreboot, Uboot, etc.