Work is underway by 9elements on porting Coreboot plus AMD openSIL to the first-generation Ryzen 7000 series Framework 16 laptop and is expected to be followed by a similar port to the Framework 13 Gen1 laptop too.
Alicja Michalska of 9elements shared the work-in-progress effort being done to get the Framework 16 Gen1 (Ryzen 7000 series models) up and running with Coreboot using the AMD openSIL CPU silicon initialization library. The plan is to follow-up with also porting Coreboot + openSIL for the Framework 13 laptop too with the similar Ryzen 7000 series AMD “Phoenix” SoCs.
The work is still in its early stages in tackling memory training and other early initialization work. Plus this work also involves bringing the AMD openSIL Phoenix code into Coreboot. There is this work-in-progress Coreboot code for the Framework Laptop 13 “Lotus” support that began months ago. In recent days have also been more Coreboot code pending around the Phoenix openSIL proof-of-concept code.
Exciting to see this work happening for the older AMD Phoenix based Framework 16 and then Framework 13 laptops. Hopefully similar support will also end up coming for the newer Strix Point hardware in time too. It’s for next-gen Zen 6 platforms where AMD has been working on bringing openSIL support up to production status.
We look forward to following along this work being done by 9elements. Alicja Michalska kindly shared a screenshot with Phoronix of the in-progress work.
This complements work being done by consulting firm 3mdeb also around Coreboot + AMD openSIL where they are porting to a Gigabyte AMD EPYC 9005 server motherboard that is readily available as well as an MSI AM5 Ryzen motherboard too.
