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AMD helped them write their own bootloader:

> “Oxide is a strong believer in the need for open-source software at the lowest layers of the stack -- including silicon initialization and platform enablement. With the availability of AMD openSIL, AMD is showing that they share this vision. We believe that the ultimate beneficiaries of open-source silicon initialization -- as it has been for open-source revolutions elsewhere in the stack -- will be customers and end-users, and we applaud AMD for taking this important and inspiring step!”

* https://community.amd.com/t5/business/empowering-the-industr...

See Bryan Cantrill's (Oxide CTO) presentation on their adventures in this space:

* https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33145411 (discussion at the time)



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