Get the latest tech news

AMD Turin PSP binaries analysis from open-source firmware perspective


Introduction In the previous post, we showed coreboot running on Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 with Turin CPU, the current, newest family of AMD server processors. However, we faced various obstacles and problems.

Seeing this opportunity, I have reviewed and tested the patches, even added more information to be dumped, and fixed parsing of the images for Turin processors, to serve the purpose of my analysis: When I looked closer at the output of PSPTool from the vendor image, the verification of the PSP FW recovery boot loader passed with the AMD Root Key: So I flashed the freshly produced image with blobs from the Turin PI package, and thankfully, the CPU was released from reset, and I saw debug messages from coreboot’s bootblock!

Get the Android app

Or read this on Hacker News

Read more on:

Photo of analysis

analysis

Photo of AMD Turin

AMD Turin

Photo of AMD Turin PSP

AMD Turin PSP

Related news:

News photo

A tech-law measurement and analysis of event listeners for wiretapping

News photo

The U.S. is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs, analysis finds

News photo

Nvidia’s Huang Sees China as a $50 Billion Opportunity