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Purism's FSP Reverse Engineering Effort Might Be Stalled Radeon EQAA Anti-Aliasing Support Merged To Mesa 18.2 Purism's FSP Reverse Engineering Effort Might Be Stalled Purism's Librem 15 v2 Laptop Now Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 11 May 2018 at 09:18 AM EDT. 2 Comments Supported By Mainline Coreboot Purism has been working on reverse-engineering the Intel Firmware Support AMD Kaveri Gets A Big Performance Boost Package (FSP) module but it looks like that work may have taken a turn. With Mesa 18.2 & AMDGPU DRM Red Hat Summit 2018 Wraps Up With A Phoronix reader tipped us off this morning that the Intel FSP reverse- Containers/Virtualization Still Being Hot engineering information made public by Purism has now been retracted. The Purism Shows Off Latest GNOME Mobile past several months Purism has been working on reverse-engineering the Shell Mockups For The Librem 5 Intel FSP to free the system further to run on only open-source code rather than still having GNOME 3.28.2 Released With GJS Garbage the Intel binary-only module paired with Coreboot. Their big focus this year has been on Collection Fix To Address The Big Memory figuring out the actual silicon initialization code inside the FSP. Purism's Youness Alaoui was Leak very close to finding out this information at the start of April and he wrote a lengthy blog post outlining his reverse-engineering work. Radeon Pro Software 18.Q2 Released For Linux But as we were informed this morning by a sharp-eyed reader, that post has now been Rust 1.26 Continues With Speed removed: Improvements, Adds Support For 128-Bit Integers 2018-04-23 update: after receiving a courtesy request from Intel’s Director of Software Infrastructure, we have decided to remove this post’s technical contents X.Org Server 1.20 "Avocado Toast" Released while we investigate our options. With DRI3 v1.2, VR Improvements

That same individual also pointed out the repository where they had been working on their FSP code has also been taken offline. That's about all we know for now, but will update if/when we hear more.

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