Progress on AMD Turin Support in Coreboot and Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Porting
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pietrushnic
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Summary
The blog post details the initial phase of enabling AMD Turin support in coreboot and porting the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 board, funded by the NLnet Foundation. It highlights AMD's open-source firmware efforts, including the release of CPU initialization code for Turin processors on GitHub, and introduces the OpenSIL initiative to unify silicon initialization across firmware frameworks like EDK2 and coreboot.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe project was inspired by AMD’s efforts to bring open-source firmware for their most recent CPUs.
AMD published their CPU initialization code for AMD Turin server processor family on GitHub.
The OpenSIL is a new initiative to unify the silicon initialization for AMD platform across multiple firmware frameworks, like EDK2 and coreboot.
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