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AMD helps lower barriers for Open Source Development of AMD based embedded systems
Continuing its efforts to support the Open Source Community AMD has announced the release of the public versions of its SB600 documents. With the availability of the SB600 documentation, along with the already available AMD 690 Series chipset and processor documents, Open Source developers are now enabled to develop firmware and drivers for AMD based embedded systems.
AMD has also contributed the AMD 690 Series chipset, SB600, and DBM690E platform source code to the coreboot project (formerly know as LinuxBIOS). In the upcoming months, AMD plans to work with the coreboot community to enable AMD 690 chipset based systems to help provide the best possible coreboot experience.
"Since our earliest days in the LinuxBIOS project at Los Alamos National Labs, and continuing to its evolution to coreboot, AMD has been unequalled in their support of open source BIOS software; not just in documents, but in code and support." said Dr. Ronald G. Minnich, founder and developer of the coreboot project, and Principle Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Labs, California. "We are looking forward to our continued work with AMD on the new chipsets."
The coreboot project is an Open Source firmware replacement focused on loading the Linux® operating system. Coreboot is an alternative firmware solution for AMD customers and technology partners that require an open and customizable embedded bootloader. AMD and the coreboot community have worked closely together for a number of years to develop coreboot for the AMD Athlon™ processor, AMD Opteron™ processor, AMD Phenom™ processor, and AMD Geode™ processor and the AMD-8000™ Series, AMD 690 Series and AMD CS5536 chipsets. AMD plans to continue supporting coreboot on future embedded silicon and platform releases.
In addition to this documentation, AMD embedded has also expanded its AMD 64 processors and chipset Linux support documentation. This includes BIOS, drivers and open processor information which can now be downloaded from AMD.com. AMD continues to collaborate with its customers in providing the resources and support to help enable their customers to market low-power, high-performance solutions.
For more information regarding SB600 documentation, AMD 64 processor and chipset Linux support and AMD embedded solutions please see: http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330... http://links.mkt426.com/ctt?kn=5&m=2295441&r=MTUxNjMzMDc4MTES1&b=0&j=NjI1NTQzNjES1&mt=1&rt=0
For more information on coreboot please see: http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot http://links.mkt426.com/ctt?kn=2&m=2295441&r=MTUxNjMzMDc4MTES1&b=0&j=NjI1NTQzNjES1&mt=1&rt=0