LibreBMC project to open source baseboard management controllers with security as a priority
Freely available from the hardware schematics to OpenPOWER cores on an FPGA, to the firmware on top Share Copy The OpenPOWER Foundation, formed to promote IBM's open-source POWER instruction set architecture (ISA), on Monday said it is putting together a new working group to develop LibreBMC, claimed to be the first baseboard management controller (BMC) designed with open source software and hardware. "The LibreBMC project came out of a desire to both utilize and showcase the fully open POWER cores, and apply software driven development to hardware design," said James Kulina, executiv...