Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader
Open Source Firmware status on AMD platforms 2022
OSF on AMD 3rd edition
<p>This is the 3rd edition of the "Status of AMD platform in coreboot". The talk
will cover the most recent news around the AMD support in open source firmware
ecosystem and updates of the topics covered in previous years. We would like to
present status of FSF RYF KGPE-D16 platform revival and related upstreaming
effort, TrenchBoot progress for AMD platforms and status of recent support in
coreboot and oreboot projects. Finally we would like to present Dasharo - open
source firmware distribution with long term stable support for older AMD
platforms.</p>
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 repeat the history of AMD and open source firmware. 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) starting to cause
unjustifiable overhead, because of accumulated technical debt. Most probably it
will result in similar situation as with famous 4.11 branch becoming de facto
stable branch for some platforms (e.g. FSP1.0 Bay Trail or ASUS KGPE-D16).
Nowadays AMD is releasing the newest AGESA with the cooperation of hired
coreboot developers, but charter covers modern Ryzen-based processors. We
trying to support the AMD platforms by reimplementing the ASUS KGPE-D16 (FSF
RYF platform) support in coreboot and keeping the PC Engines platforms in the
top of tree. We would like to present Dasharo plan for long term stable and
sustainable support for older platforms. If you are interested in open source
firmware for most open x86 platforms on the market feel free to tune in and
discuss the ideas with us.
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