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Yesterday, our lab's port of the ASRock SPC741D8-2L2T/BCM (Intel SPR/EMR) mainboard finally got merged into the coreboot project. This is now the *only* CXL-capable mainboard supported by upstream coreboot that is available for anyone to buy off-the-shelf. Implementing coreboot on this mainboard was quite a journey. We needed it for a research project and had some prior experience working with open-source system firmware on an Intel Alder Lake system. But adding support for an entirely new mainboard from scratch with no schematics and no deep technical documentation available to us? What could possibly go wrong?! 🤔 There was lots of frustration in the process, but in the end, it worked out. And oh boy, that was a very rewarding moment when we saw the system actually boot for the first time all the way from pressing the power button up into Linux. 😅 A big shout-out to my students Fabian Meyer and Felix Zimmer who worked on making this happen! And of course, a big thank you to the OSFW community for the coreboot project. Check out the commit 👉 https://lnkd.in/eXAC_Gqt #coreboot #OSFW #OpenSourceFirmware #CXL #ComputeExpressLink
