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Breaking News! AMD is open sourcing the API for the x86 bootloader (community.amd.com)

submitted 1 year ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I think this means we will eventually see a fully open source Coreboot/Libreboot soon. Someone correct me if I am wrong please!

the openSIL github repo

I'm not clear about where this API sits relative to the AMD Platform Security Processor.

found via this post: https://lemmy.world/post/134243

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[–] slondr@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ARM isn't open source, though

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Sure, one of the two mentioned isn't, but RISC-V is and that's almost certainly going to be the ISA that finally displaces x86 if anything currently available can.