AMD Will Replace AGESA With Open Source Initialization Library 'openSIL'

Phoronix shares some overlooked news from AMD's openSIL presentation at the OCP Regional Summit in April. Specifically, that AMD openSIL — their open-source x86 silicon initialization library — "is planned to eventually replace AMD's well known AGESA [BIOS utility]" around 2026, and "it will be supported across AMD's entire processor stack — just not limited to EPYC server processors as some were initially concerned..."Raj Kapoor, AMD Fellow and AMD's Chief Firmware Architect,