Hardware Enablement
Status of AMD platforms in coreboot
The presentation is about AMD's involvement in coreboot evolution and development. Gives a high-level overview of the engagement of the silicon vendor in the coreboot project history. The presentation may contain a little bit of technical aspects of firmware and BIOS. However, the intended audience is not only firmware and BIOS developers, but also free and libre hardware enthusiasts too. If anybody is interested in the future of famous platforms like Asus KGPE-D16, Lenovo G505S, PC Engines apu1/apu2, please attend the presentation.
The history of AMD cooperation in coreboot projects reaches 2007 where the
first contribution appeared for the Geode LX processors. AMD's open-source
support continued for many years until now (with some break). This presentation
will briefly introduce the history of AMD and coreboot, the evolution of the
code, processors, creation of CIMX and AGESA and so on. It will also show the
gradual change in the AMD attitude to open-source and introduction of binary
platform initialization. Binary blobs, very disliked by the open-source
community started to cause problems and raised the needs for workarounds to
support basic processor features. Soon after that AMD stopped supporting the
coreboot community. Moreover, recent coreboot releases started to enforce
certain requirements on the features supported by the silicon code base. Aging
platforms kept losing interest and many of them (including fully open ones) are
being dropped from the main tree. Nowadays AMD released the newest AGESA with
the cooperation of hired coreboot developers, but only for Google and their
Chromebooks based on Ryzen processors. These are hard times for open firmware
on AMD platforms. If you are curious about what is the present status of AMD
boards and hardware (for example famous Asus KGPE-D16, Lenovo G505S, PC Engines
apu1/apu2) in coreboot and what future awaits them, this presentation will give
you a good overview.
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