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VMBoot Proof of Concept

Introduction In an ideal world, we would be able to boot any operating system from any firmware. Sadly, this is not the case with the predominant industry standards, hence we have to improvise — read more

21 January 2024 by Christopher Meis

9elements joins ARM System Ready Program

At 9elements, we are constantly pushing the boundaries of open-source firmware - in the client and server space. Dispite our work within the x86 space - we are exploring different paths within the — read more

15 November 2023 by Christian Walter

Embracing a New Era: 9elements and AMD Collaborate to Bring Open-Source Firmware to 4th Gen EPYC Server Systems

We are thrilled to announce that 9elements, the largest open-source firmware vendor worldwide, has joined forces with AMD to enable systems using their new 4th Gen EPYC CPUs to run with open-source firmware. — read more

13 April 2023 by Christian Walter

First SBoM Support in Open Source Firmware

The coreboot firmware has just received a new patch adding Software Bill of Materials (SBoM). The SBoM concept has been mainly driven by Richard Hughes and has been derived from an executive order — read more

20 May 2022 by Christian Walter

OSFC 2021 - Going Full Open-Source

We changed quite some bits in our conference system - and went from partially open-source to full open-source mode! Check out how! — read more

26 August 2021 by Christian Walter

Coreboot on the ASRock E3C246D4I

A new toy to play with OpenBMC I wanted to play around with OpenBMC on a physical board and this article led me to the ASRock E3C246D4I. It's a not overly expensive Intel — read more

15 July 2021 by Arthur Heymans

Open source cache as ram with Intel Bootguard

FSP-T in open source projects X86 CPUs boot up in a very bare state. They execute the first instruction at the top of memory mapped flash in 16 bit real mode. DRAM is — read more

25 June 2021 by Arthur Heymans

Hardware assisted root of trust mechanism and coreboot internals

I started working for 9elements in October 2020 and my first assignment was to get Intel CBnT working on the OCP Deltalake using coreboot firmware. Intel Converged Bootguard and TXT is a hardware — read more

26 May 2021 by Arthur Heymans

The Future of Open-Source Firmware on Server Systems

About the current state of Scalable Server Systems. Intel, AMD and ARM are moving forward - we did summarized the information gathered on various conferences and community calls. A bright future is about to come. — read more

12 May 2021 by Christian Walter

Netboot.xyz is now Part of LinuxBoot

We recently worked on some patches to adopt netboot.xyz and integrate it into LinuxBoot - and it got merged now.Netboot.xyzSo - what is netboot.xyz? From there website:netboot.xyz — read more

5 May 2021 by Christian Walter

Converged Security (CBnT) coreboot support and tooling

We are happy to announce that the Converged Security Suite got some major updates and arrived at release version 2.6.0. Not only does this release provide new features, but also comes — read more

27 April 2021 by Christian Walter

Adolescence @9eSec

Really? Where is the time? Dang! My first year as a full time employee at 9elements Cyber Security was on first of March and my two years anniversary at the company is today. — read more

1 April 2021 by Christopher Meis

A short journey to x86 long mode in coreboot on recent Intel platforms

While it was difficult to add initial x86_64 support in coreboot, as described in my last blog article how-to-not-add-x86_64-support-to-coreboot it was way easier on real hardware. During the OSFC we did — read more

3 December 2020 by Patrick Rudolph

Netboot.xyz in LinuxBoot

We do always come along with more or less the same problems if we set up new server systems in our lab - how to attach them, how to get an OS on — read more

22 October 2020 by Christian Walter

Contributions to Googles Go-TPM

Naturally using Open Source Software, one of our goals is to contribute back into the community to improve and broaden the usability of these OSS projects. One of these projects is Google's Go-TPM — read more

24 September 2020 by Christopher Meis

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

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