Open Letter Asks Intel To Open-Source The FSP, Google Engineer Details Interesting Plan

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Open Letter Asks Intel To Open-Source The FSP, Google Engineer Details Interesting Plan

An open letter started by the Open-Source Firmware Foundation and seeking community support for this letter is calling on Intel to open-source their Firmware Support Package (FSP). The FSP binary blob has been a big limitation to the level of openness around firmware for Intel systems and has been a limiting factor in supporting the likes of Coreboot, LinuxBoot, and other technologies on Intel hardware...

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[kpedersen]

Nice, but I would also like to see the ME being opened.

One thing at a time and baby steps. The best way to "kill" a petition like this is by simply asking too much and diluting the focus. I feel the open-source community makes this mistake often.

[doomie]

One thing at a time and baby steps. The best way to "kill" a petition like this is by simply asking too much and diluting the focus. I feel the open-source community makes this mistake often.

I was gonna say, ME + PSP please, and you're also totally right. That this is remotely likely at all is a big deal, and would be a big step

[tildearrow]

One thing at a time and baby steps. The best way to "kill" a petition like this is by simply asking too much and diluting the focus. I feel the open-source community makes this mistake often.

Disregard my comment.

[Danny3]

This reminds me of something...
Fuck you AMD your Microsoft friend!

[hamishmb]

Signed. This will be great if it happens. I have my doubts but we can only try. Besides, I think maybe anything's possible if Nvidia open-sourced part of their GPU drivers.

[halo9en]

I was gonna say, ME + PSP please, and you're also totally right. That this is remotely likely at all is a big deal, and would be a big step

An open source FSP would be great... and yet, year after year, that damn thing... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/new...althy-attacks/