Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)
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Re: Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)
#2I have a 8300 at home and recently spent half a day searching for an old driver that would enable WOL, since it's not supported by Windows 10 drivers. I managed to find a compatiable one that wouldn't be rejected by Windows eventually, but it was pure luck. It's a shame libreboot doesn't support WOL.
Re: Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)
#3This is actually significant news as there are massive amounts of these machines around.
They are still quite powerful considering they are about 12 years old (Sandy Bridge era).
Hopefully they add 8300s as well.
HP really makes/used make machines pleasant to upgrade and service around that time.
Re: Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)
#4I have a 8300 at home and recently spent half a day searching for an old driver that would enable WOL, since it's not supported by Windows 10 drivers. I managed to find a compatiable one that wouldn't be rejected by Windows eventually, but it was pure luck. It's a shame libreboot doesn't support WOL.
Why would someone run Microsoft Windows on top of Libreboot?
Re: Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)
#5I have a 8300 at home and recently spent half a day searching for an old driver that would enable WOL, since it's not supported by Windows 10 drivers. I managed to find a compatiable one that wouldn't be rejected by Windows eventually, but it was pure luck. It's a shame libreboot doesn't support WOL.
Why would someone run Microsoft Windows on top of Libreboot?
Why would someone run their proprietary server software on top of Linux?
Re: Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)
#6This is actually significant news as there are massive amounts of these machines around. They are still quite powerful considering they are about 12 years old (Sandy Bridge era). Hopefully they add 8300s as well. HP really makes/used make machines pleasant to upgrade and service around that time.
I have an 8300 USDT too, but I don't think it's supported in Coreboot yet. Will be looking onto that too hopefully sometime.
Re: Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)
#7These seem to be fairly available at quite cheap, i think one of these + a nvme adapter and a couple of drives could make for quite a powerful cheap nas
I'd be curious about how the power draw would compare to my current ryzen 3700x which is vastly overkill for my needs, but obviously much newer.
Re: Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)
#8I have been looking to buy a 9020 for a nice little home server. Didn’t know it has coreboot support now.
Re: Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)
#9I have a 8300 at home and recently spent half a day searching for an old driver that would enable WOL, since it's not supported by Windows 10 drivers. I managed to find a compatiable one that wouldn't be rejected by Windows eventually, but it was pure luck. It's a shame libreboot doesn't support WOL.
Why would someone run Microsoft Windows on top of Libreboot?
Actually that's a good question. Perhaps an answer is that they are looking for still-supported firmware or needed WOL as such a core feature and perhaps apps couldn't just run on just Linux, but it is still a good question: why run a closed-source (some might call spyware) operating system on top of libreboot, the opposite.
Re: Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)
#10This is actually significant news as there are massive amounts of these machines around. They are still quite powerful considering they are about 12 years old (Sandy Bridge era). Hopefully they add 8300s as well. HP really makes/used make machines pleasant to upgrade and service around that time.
I've got a bunch of these around, either multi-booting diskless (Devuan/Debian/Windows), more than enough for browsing, video calls and light development. Spec is E8400's at 3GHz/4Gb RAM, 1G ethernet, display port and decent sound ('lspci' shows wall-to-wall Intel parts). In USFF ('USDT') format they're great little systems for the price (on ebay they go for less than the cost of the Windows licence they come with, and if they're from a pro-recycler the licence often isn't even locked to the hardware).
Edit: Oh, and being HP they are pretty much clip together, no screwdrivers needed.