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Ninmi ( Ninmi@sopuli.xyz )  to Free and Open Source Software · 3 years ago

AMD reveals initial open source openSIL code to replace AGESA Firmware

www.gamingonlinux.com

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AMD reveals initial open source openSIL code to replace AGESA Firmware

www.gamingonlinux.com

Ninmi ( Ninmi@sopuli.xyz )  to Free and Open Source Software · 3 years ago
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AMD is moving even further into open source, with their plans to have openSIL replace AGESA for their processors and they've now put up the initial open source code on GitHub.
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      Open firmware is important for trusting your boot chain. Seeing their list of partners in the article makes it look like a bunch of cloud providers want to take early boot security very seriously.

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      Security by obscurity doesn’t work. AMD knows this well, and wants to have more eyes scrutinizing the firmware.

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