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Purism's FSP Reverse Engineering Effort Might Be Stalled ARTICLES & REVIEWS NEWS ARCHIVE FORUMS PREMIUM CATEGORIES Custom Search Search Latest Linux News 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the Intel FSP reverse- Containers/Virtualization Still Being Hot engineering information made public by Purism has now been retracted.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. 2 Comments Latest Featured Articles GCC 8.1 vs. GCC 7.3 Compiler Benchmarks On Five AMD/Intel Linux Systems Tweet Like 0 Share RADV vs. AMDGPU-PRO vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Linux Driver Performance About The Author Ubuntu 18.04 LTS vs. Fedora 28 vs. Clear Linux Benchmarks Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than Radeon Software 18.10 vs. Mesa 18.2 10,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, RADV/RadeonSI Benchmarks graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Ubuntu 16.04 vs. 18.04 Performance On Six Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. Systems He can be followed via Twitter or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com. Related Hardware News Qualcomm Reportedly Wanting To Exit ARM Server CPU Business System76 Begins Rolling Out The New Oryx Pro With Coffeelake CPU + NVIDIA Graphics MIPS Shows Off Their New Linux Kernel Port To nanoMIPS MIPS Rolls Out New I7200 Processor Core Using New nanoMIPS ISA USB 3.2 Work Is On The Way For The Linux 4.18 Kernel There's Finally A Device Using Broadcom's VideoCore V GPU Popular News This Week One Of LLVM's Top Contributors Quits Development Over CoC, Outreach Program The Shiny New Features Of X.Org Server 1.20 KDE Plasma 5 Stack Should Now Be In Good Shape For FreeBSD Ports NVIDIA Ends The GeForce Partner Program Linux Kernel Hardens Sound Drivers Against Spectre V1 Vulnerability Linux 4.18 Set To Receive Scheduler Optimization For vCPUs Support Phoronix The mission at Phoronix since 2004 has centered around enriching the Linux hardware experience. In addition to supporting our site through advertisements, you can help by subscribing to Phoronix Premium. You can also use our NewEgg.com shopping links when making online purchases or contribute to Phoronix through a PayPal tip. Phoronix Media Phoronix Premium Share Legal Disclaimer, Privacy Policy | Contact Copyright © 2004 - 2018 by Phoronix Media. Phoronix Test Suite Support Phoronix Facebook All trademarks used are properties of their OpenBenchmarking.org While Having Ad-Free Browsing, Twitter respective owners. All rights reserved. Phoromatic Single-Page Article Viewing Google Plus LinuxBenchmarking.com.
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