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AMD & Supermicro Collaborating On Open-Source Firmware With The OSFF

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As more positive indications around AMD's [1]OpenSIL effort for open-source CPU silicon initialization to eventually replace AGESA, both AMD and Supermicro are now collaborating with the Open-Source Firmware Foundation. Supermicro has also publicly shown off a platform with OpenSIL+Coreboot and is said to be exploring OpenBMC for future hardware.

The Open-Source Firmware Foundation was [2]established in 2022 by founding members 9elements Cyber Security and Mullvad VPN. [3]LinuxBoot and [4]Coreboot since joined the Open-Source Firmware Foundation (OSFF).

With AMD working more on open-source firmware these days due to customer demand, OpenSIL eventually set to replace AGESA around 2026, [5]their new reference motherboards leveraging OpenBMC , AMD Chromebooks supporting Coreboot per Google requirements, etc, it's the logical next step they join with the Open-Source Firmware Foundation to increase collaborations. The OSFF announced today that both AMD and Supermicro have "aligned" with the Open-Source Firmware Foundation to promote open-source firmware.

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At the recent OCP Regional Summit, Supermicro and AMD showed off the Supermicro H13SSL-N with AMD 4th Gen EPYC CPU running atop AMD OpenSIL and using Tianocore and Coreboot/LinuxBoot. Great to see Supermicro already adapting and exploring OpenSIL/Coreboot integration as with the OpenSIL efforts publicly up to this stage it all appeared centered around AMD's reference motherboards.

Supermicro is also said to be exploring [7]OpenBMC use in their future motherboards/servers.

More details on this Open-Source Firmware Foundation collaboration with AMD and Supermicro via the [8]OSFF blog .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/OpenSIL

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Source-Firmware-Foundation

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Boot-Joins-OSFF

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-Open-Source-Firmware

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-genoa-openbmc

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2024&image=amd_supermicro_lrg

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/search/OpenBMC

[8] https://blog.osfw.foundation/supermicro-joins-the-open-source-firmware-effort/


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