On 2017-04-26 at 15:25, Rene Shuster wrote: > Maybe even FSF-endorsed. Great news! Spread the news.
The H8SCM is a nice find, but unfortunately probably not eligible for FSF certification. The board has an old AGP-based Matrox G200eW GPU. In addition to having a non-free VBIOS [1], the GPU has a "WARP Engine" – a RISC coprocessor core with non-free microcode (loaded by Linux [2]) to do triangle setup operations [3]. So, a couple of blobs that would be rather non-trivial to reverse engineer and replace. The board could surely run headless without them, but the FSF most likely wouldn't certify it since users could be tempted to load the blobs to get video output and graphics acceleration. [1]: https://www.coreboot.org/Board:supermicro/h8scm#Extract_VGA_BIOS [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/mga/mga_warp.c [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox_G200 -- Patrick "P. J." McDermott: http://www.pehjota.net/ Lead Developer, ProteanOS: http://www.proteanos.com/ Founder and CEO, Libiquity: http://www.libiquity.com/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
