oxidecomputer/phbl
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Pico Host Boot Loader
6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2023-04-14 · latest 2024-07-08
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…small attack surface. Taken to the limit, Oxide Computer boots using the [Pico Host Boot Loader]( https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl ) which is probably not suitable for your personal system where you would want to boot many OS images…
comment by benstoltz · 2024-07-08 · in No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead -
…hardware platform is FOSS We fully intend to do this, by the way. Just haven't yet. It'll come. 1: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl 2: https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-... 2:…
comment by steveklabnik · 2024-01-29 · in Helios: A distribution of Illumos powering the Oxide Rack -
Oxide managed to do something similar as well: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl
comment by surajrmal · 2024-01-17 · in PixieFail: Nine Vulnerabilities UEFI Implementations -
They have a custom bootloader https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl that runs without AGESA or any of the normal stack of stuff. From their podcast it sounds like it was quite a bit of work to get it working.
comment by delusional · 2024-01-17 · in PixieFail: Nine Vulnerabilities UEFI Implementations -
…is pretty involved, but to give you a flavor, see, e.g. initialization of the DXIO engine.[2]) [0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl [1] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/illumos-gate/tree/stlouis [2]…
comment by bcantrill · 2023-10-27 · in The Cloud Computer -
Oxide phbl https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl doesn't use OpenSIL. I assume it's written from scratch based on documentation and maybe looking at AGESA. Why can't other server/firmware vendors do the same? Because they're just not…
comment by wmf · 2023-04-14 · in AMD Details OpenSIL for Advancing Open-Source System Firmware