Dear coreboot folks,
AMD presented the new processor architecture *Zen* [1], which – from the published reports – looks quite promising to be competitive to Intel once again.
No devices are sold yet, but I guess they are already worked on. (Hopefully, there will be also Google Chromebooks and Chromeboxes.)
Should the coreboot community publish a statement, asking AMD to make it possible to fully initialize these devices with free software? Is there somebody good in English writing, and knowledgeable of the current state, able to draft something up?
For example, will there still be a Platform Security Processor (PSP) [2], and SMU (System(?) Management Unit) [3]?
What does the statement need to contain?
1. Request for free documentation for all parts (chipset (RAM) init, PSP, SMU, …) 2. User controllable signing keys 3. Reference to Intel’s involvement to coreboot
Nice to have:
4. Code contributions from AMD
What else is missing?
(I am well aware, that such a statement has a small chance to change anything. But better try than not.)
Thanks,
Paul
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_%28microarchitecture%29 [2] https://www.coreboot.org/Binary_situation#recent_AMD