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OpenComputeProject Membership

It is official now - We joined the OpenComputeProject and applied for a community level membership tier!The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) was initiated by Facebook in 2011 with a mission to — read more

17 September 2020 by Christian Walter

How to not add x86_64 support to coreboot #2

This is the second article about adding x86_64 support to coreboot's recent Intel x86 platforms. You can find the first article here. A new approach As described in the previous article, mixing — read more

3 September 2020 by Patrick Rudolph

How to not add x86_64 support to coreboot

This is the first of two chapters about adding x86_64 support to the open-source coreboot project on Intel platforms. You can find the second article here.. It started in 2018 when I — read more

27 August 2020 by Patrick Rudolph

Get ready for OCP Accepted with Open-Source Firmware

The Open Compute Project is the main driver behind open computing and an essential foundation for hyperscalers.The OCP Open System Firmware project makes Open Source Firmware in their newest OCP Accepted certification — read more

21 July 2020 by Philipp Deppenwiese

Converged-Security-Suite

Last year we released our Intel Trusted Execution Technology test suite TXT-Suite. It's purpose is to test Intel processor based systems with respect to correct configuration of Intel TXT in every aspect. This — read more

17 July 2020 by Christopher Meis

Next Generation coreboot Server Platform

We did it once - and we are doing it again!As part of our work here at 9elements - we brought Open-Source Firmware to the Supermicro X11SCH-F! The platform is the next — read more

5 June 2020 by Christian Walter

First Coffee Lake Server Platform with coreboot

In cooperation with one of our customers, we enabled a modern Intel Coffee Lake Platform with coreboot. The platform supports Intel's 8th/9th generation processors with up to 16 cores. The platform itself — read more

18 May 2020 by Christian Walter

Open Source Firmware Conference 2020

For this year, OSFC 2020, we had planned to launch the conference in South Korea on an island named Jeju-do. It's quite a famous island for vacationing in the APAC region. Most people — read more

7 April 2020 by Philipp Deppenwiese

Open Source Firmware Hackathon

Due to the worldwide virus outbreak the OSF Hackathon in Bochum from June 2nd to June 5th has been canceled. Depending on the situation in summer this year we might host it at — read more

23 March 2020 by Patrick Rudolph

Introducing AUTOREV

Modern firmware complexity increases with the hardware it runs on. Many hardware manufacturers decided to only release closed source. Some provide close source BLOBs to be used with open source firmware. Lacking a — read more

4 March 2020 by Patrick Rudolph

Open Source Firmware Hackathon 2020

We are pleased to announce that the OSF hackathon 2020 will take place from 2nd June to 5th June in Bochum, Germany.Please be aware that June 1st is a banking holiday and — read more

24 February 2020 by Patrick Rudolph

Internship at 9eSec

We’re always looking for interns hungry to learn about security, firmware development, and software engineering. Interns are full members of our team and contribute to the software projects we are working on, — read more

9 December 2019 by Philipp Deppenwiese

Trusted Execution Technology Test Suite (TXT-Suite)

As provider for infrastructure services or "PaaS", such as VPN or Cloud-Storage, it is a necessity to trust your server vendor's firmware, especially if your company has limited resources in firmware engineering and — read more

1 December 2019 by Christopher Meis

Open Source Firmware - Why should we support it?

Firmware is the most powerful software that runs on a platform. It can tear your security concerns apart if configured wrongly, and it can prevent your platform from booting if written faulty. So — read more

25 November 2019 by Christian Walter

Intel Trusted Execution Technology, open-source now!

Finally after six month of development and testing we can release our last part of the Intel TXT support that we did for a customer. Now where we have everything open-source and documented — read more

21 November 2019 by Philipp Deppenwiese

Open Source Firmware updates for the masses! (Part 1)

Updating the BIOS firmware can be a pain if vendors only provide binaries for Windows™ on their homepage, especially when you are running an open-source operating system.LVFSThanks to the Linux Vendor Firmware — read more

11 November 2019 by Patrick Rudolph

Our BIOS Test-Station for Quality Assurance

Firmware is an essential part of our everyday life and encompasses a wide range of devices — from your car keys to complex industrial production systems.An important part of our development process is — read more

2 October 2019 by Patrick Rudolph

Open Source Firmware Conference 2019 - Talks, Hackathon and more

The Open Source Firmware Conference 2019 is over. We had a couple of weeks for our impressions to settle - and we are still thrilled. This year's OSFC took place in Silicon Valley, — read more

26 September 2019 by Christian Walter

UP² for Open-Source Firmware Training

Our open-source firmware trainings require hardware for the hands-on. Therefore we ported the AAEON UP² computing module to coreboot. — read more

21 August 2019 by Philipp Deppenwiese

First modern coreboot server platform

As part of the System Transparency project and partnership with Mullvad, we ported the Supermicro X11SSH-TF server platform to coreboot. — read more

7 August 2019 by Philipp Deppenwiese

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