LibreBMC project to open source baseboard management controllers with security as a priority

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 …

[Anonymous Coward]

LibreSoC

I'm guessing that the LibreBMC will be using the 22nm (or 28nm) LibreSoC (ref: https://libre-soc.org/22nm_PowerPI/ )

[whitepines]

Competition is good?

Seems there are now two competing FPGA BMC projects -- the original project is Kestrel:

https://gitlab.raptorengineering.com/kestrel-collaboration/kestrel-litex/litex-boards/-/blob/master/README.md

From what I can see Kestrel is already functional, and LibreBMC is still in the early planning phase. Will be interesting to see what happens from here, and which project gains traction.