Empowering The Industry with Open System Firmware – AMD openSIL
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THE IMPETUS Platform & Silicon Firmware Development has historically been a niche field in the compute industry, requiring specific, hard-to-find engineering skill sets. As time progressed, firmware capabilities expanded, offering a large range of enhanced capabilities and platform intelligen...

I think this means we will eventually see a fully open source Coreboot/Libreboot soon. Someone correct me if I am wrong please!

the openSIL github repo

I’m not clear about where this API sits relative to the AMD Platform Security Processor.

found via this post: https://lemmy.world/post/134243

  • aksdb@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I guess at some point the actual hardware initialization was still something to set yourself they could use to set themselves apart from others. Then it would involve patents and what not. But yes, I can’t imagine that there is a lot of magic left for the established platforms. It might be different for entirely new beasts like Apple’s “new” machines with a lot of custom chips.