Question about hardware and UEFI

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I am planning to purchase new hardware for ipfire and have chosen the cirrus7 system.
https://www.cirrus7.com/mini-desktop/cirrus7-nimbus-v3.html

  • Intel Core i7-9700T
  • ASRock IMB-1213

Can anyone tell me if the board with its LAN interfaces is supported in ipfire.
https://www.cirrus7.com/blog/cirrus7-nimbus-v3-released

Furthermore it is probably so, that this motherboard can only UEFI and no Legacy Mode. Can ipfire be installed with UEFI and what kind of dependencies can I encounter?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Best regards
Paul

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1 x Intel® I210, 1 x Intel® I219LM

That NICs are “old” and supported.

It still has CSM but ipfire has no problem with UEFI + secure boot off.

3

Do I understand correctly that this motherboard is suitable for the installation of ipfire?

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Yes of course. I have exactly that board and tested it with ipfire about 1 year ago but the whole system was too expensive to be used for a firewall application only so it went over to a 24/7 NAS.

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Have you run spectre-meltdown-checker on that board ?