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AMD Going Open Boot?

posted by chromas on Monday September 02 2019, @12:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the knock-me-over-with-a-feather dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Michael Larabel over at Phoronix got his journalism on to produce this interesting story:

We were tipped off today that AMD's Head of Platform Firmware, Edward Benyukhis, publicly posted on LinkedIn that he is "looking to hire someone with solid Coreboot and UEFI background." If you have Coreboot experience or know someone who is, see LinkedIn for contacting Benyukhis.

Oh, and they're also one of the sponsors for the Open-Source Firmware Conference next week. Does this mean I may actually get to use a computer that isn't about to hit a decade old and without a functional hardware rootkit sometime soon?

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by hemocyanin on Monday September 02 2019, @03:42PM (3 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Monday September 02 2019, @03:42PM (#888853) Journal

    AMD sells hardware. Google sells you. That might be a distinction that leads to a different result.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @07:14PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @07:14PM (#888926)

    Fair enough. We shall have to wait and see if the theories about closed firmware to implement DRM are true or not.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @09:25PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @09:25PM (#888981)

      What theories are those?

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @10:15PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @10:15PM (#888998)

        https://www.devever.net/~hl/intelme [devever.net]
        Plenty of results if you search for "Intel ME DRM" . A little harder for "AMD PSP" because of name conflicts with the Playstation Portable.