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.
  • Herotwo@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    Honest question: is this a good move on their behalf? What are they trying to achieve here? I’m assuming they will not just sanction any code changes (or at all…) even if it fixes critical bugs.

    • CDN@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

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

    • adisbladis@lemmy.blad.is
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • killbox@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    How does one verify that the firmware running on you chip is actually the same as the open source code? This is kinda a trusting trust question, but I imagine it’s going to be hard to build and install this as a end user.