Over the past few months the open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb has been porting Coreboot and AMD’s new openSIL silicon initialization library to the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a broadly available motherboard that supports the latest-generation AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” server processors. 3mdeb has been fairly successful in their quest and an early demonstrator for openSIL.

3mdeb was funded by the NLnet Foundation with a grant to work on bringing open-source firmware to modern AMD motherboards. Michał Żygowski and other 3mdeb engineers have been working in turn on getting AMD openSIL and Coreboot running on the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 as their preferred target. This follows 3mdeb previously porting Coreboot to a generally available Intel desktop motherboard.