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At the recent Open Compute Project Global Summit, 9elements Cyber Security announced they are going to maintain the Intel Xeon-SP Gen1 code within Coreboot and continue to enhance that platform support. Rather than letting that Xeon Scalable Skylake era code rot within Coreboot and potentially be removed now that Intel's sights are well beyond 1st Gen Xeon Scalable, 9elements is taking over maintaining the code. One of their target Xeon Scalable platforms of interest is the WiWynn Tioga Pass dual socket OCP 2OU/3N server. Tioga Pass server picture from WiWynn As part of seeing the 1st Gen Xeon Scalable support in Coreboot going strong, this week 9elements engineers posted 34 new Coreboot patches for enhancing the platform support. There are a number of common Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen improvements as well as some specific to Tioga Pass. 1st Gen Xeon Scalable Coreboot patches Nice to see the support continue to not only be maintained but improved upon for these aging platforms, albeit they are getting up there in age and this generation of Skylake Xeon processors are the most vulnerable to all the security vulnerabilities out there and so most users will be best off upgrading if at all possible. In any event, kudos to 9elements on their continued Coreboot contributions. 1 Comment Tweet Related News Coreboot Issues Rebuttal To Recent Laptop Vendor Controversy Laptop Vendor MALIBAL Suggests Not Supporting Coreboot Coreboot 24.08 Released With 31 New Motherboards, Initial Intel Panther Lake Support Chrome's Coreboot Firmware Adapting For 64-bit Boot, Prepping For Intel Panther Lake Coreboot To Be Shown Today With An Intel Meteor Lake Laptop Coreboot 24.05 Released With 25 More Platforms - Including The Framework 13 AMD About The Author Michael Larabel Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. 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