A Modern Supermicro Kabylake Xeon Motherboard Now Supports Coreboot

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Modern Supermicro Kabylake Xeon Motherboard Now Supports Coreboot

While the tide may be eventually turning, as it stands today for those wanting to run Coreboot on x86 desktop/server hardware you are largely limited to generations-old platforms. But now there is a new option and that is a Coreboot port having been completed to a modern Supermicro motherboard for use with Intel Xeon "Kabylake" processors...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Supermicro-Kaby-Server-Coreboot

[Guest]

Great news. I'm glad someone is trying to make it feasible to own modern hardware with sane firmware. Coreboot is MUCH better than any stock firmware I've ever used.

[edwaleni]

Coreboot is growing every month. It really flourishes in the Chromebook/Chromebox reflash space. Glad it is making inroads in the server boards as well.

[bachchain]

1 PCI-E 3.0 x8, 1 PCI-E 3.0 x2 (in x4)

That seems a bit anemic for a server platform

[starshipeleven]

That seems a bit anemic for a server platform

Not all servers need a lot of PCIe slots. ALso there is a x4 PCIe 3.0 in the M.2 slot

This thing has 2x 10Gbit ethernet ports and 8 Sata ports already integrated (and Intel's fake raid supporting RAID0/1/5/10 in case you aren't running Linux/BSDs) so it's pretty capable even without cards.