Christian Walter - 9elements Cyber Security

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

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

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

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

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 - 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

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