Firmware track keynote

Firmware security track keynote

LinuxBoot replaces most of the firmware image with a Linux kernel and a tailored initramfs. We started the LinuxBoot ...

Sound Open Firmware (SOF) is a permissive licensed open source audio DSP firmware and SDK that provides infrastructur...

Back at the beginning of home computers, volatile memory was a rather easy problem to solve in the computer architect...

coreboot is an extended firmware platform that delivers a lightning fast and secure boot experience on modern compute...

I invented the ramstage in late 1999 because Linux could not enumerate PCI correctly. Since then, the ramstage has gr...

BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) is the intelligent controller embedded into complex data center equipment like ...

The Armv8.4 architecture will introduce support for virtualization in the Secure state. A new privileged exception le...

This is meant as a follow-on presentation to my 'coreboot on ARM' overview from the 2016 conference (http://youtu.be/...

Google Secure Microcontroller (aka H1) is a chip which is in the root of Chrome OS security system. It both plays ...

Researchers from Intel's Platform Armoring and Resiliency team will walk through the evolution of various firmware th...

We take a look at differences observed in firmware security posture as mapped by CHIPSEC on a custom Winterfell node ...

The idea for this talk born from fascination about the philosophy behind QubesOS, OpenXT and ViryaOS. The underlying ...

UEFI is a de-facto standard BIOS for x86 based computers. Currently, there are two types of UEFI implementations, Tia...

An overview of the "Dynamic Tables Framework" submitted to Tianocore edk2-staging. Provides an outline of the design ...

We will talk about the open source system firmware development that is going on at Facebook. We will discuss the r...

From humble origins as a bootloader for the Playstation 3 to being loaded on every OpenPOWER server, it has been a bi...

This talk covers chain-loading U-Boot on a Chromebook as well as experimental work on using U-Boot as the primary boo...

Nowadays, a significant number of devices are supported by free software projects related to hardware support, such a...

We will introduce during this talk the work that we perform to automatize firmware testing based on linuxboot firmwar...

Chrome OS has gained a lot of popularity in the EDU market. Recently, it has started expanding to consumer segment wi...

During the last 2 years, U-Boot has grown support to execute UEFI applications such as grub or various BSD loaders. ...

Main Track Keynote

Keynote Main Track

The LVFS is a website which allows hardware vendors to upload firmware updates. This site is used by all major Linux ...

Platform initialization for the majority of the Intel product portfolio is implemented using Unified Extensible Firmw...

The open RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has been growing for the last few years and the momentum behind it...

Intel® Direct Connect Interface (DCI) provides closed chassis hardware debug functionality through USB 3.0 for Intel ...

Oreboot = Coreboot without C. Oreboot is a fully open-source power-on-reset and romstage firmware written in Rust. By...

In a world of a trillion connected devices, Firmware security must be seen as a shared responsibility among all vendo...

Introducing System Transparency - a novel design approach for computer systems intended to offer deterrence, preventi...

Until now SPI flash memory was not considered to be a storage for a hypervisor, because they were relatively too smal...

Traditional cloud computing services utilize virtualization to abstract a physical server's hardware and firmware det...

In this paper, we are going to introduce Static Root of Trust Measurement with Verified Boot using different mechanis...

Platform Management Components Intercommunication (PMCI) is a DMTF standards group that deals with "inside the box" c...

The OpenBMC platform is a core component in modern server deployment. As such, it needs to ensure that the services i...

A study on enabling OpenBMC on a high end enterprise Purley server. We take a shipping Lenovo server, SR950 (hw enabl...

BMCs have a notorious past of critical vulnerabilities that allow complete takeover of the host system. Worse, the sa...

Progressing of Telemetry framework in OpenBMC given that BMC plays a critical role in ensuring reliability, and servi...

IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is an old standard that was originally created during the time of 80...

The IBM Linux Technology center is developing verified boot and Trusted Computing support for the OpenPOWER bootloade...

The Slim Bootloader was launched publicly in OSFC2018. Since then, it has attracted public interest and gaining momen...

The coreboot ramstage was created because Linux could not correctly a PCI bus in 1999. Since then, the ramstage has...

Slim Bootloader is an open-source boot solution designed for Internet of Things use cases that requires fast boot spe...

Firmware relies on intimate system knowledge for memory initialization and training. However, there is currently no s...

In this talk we present Fiano, Go-based tools created at Google and Facebook for manipulating UEFI images. Fiano is f...

This session represents, Bare metal drivers debug on FPGA board starting with Startup code & different controllers(In...

Facebook is in the transition to OSF (coreboot/linuxboot) solution as the next generation of host firmware technology...

Sophisticated attackers are targeting system firmware in search of new exploits. Firmware is normally subjected to ri...

In this paper, we are going to explain TrenchBoot implementation for AMD and prove a boot chain leveraging it. We wi...

Processor microcode is akin to processor firmware. Processors may need updates to their microcode to operate correctl...

The U-Boot bootloader has been evolved for nearly 2 decades and is one of the primary and well-known opensource bootl...

This slide based session provides an overview of Intel’s open source firmware support for upcoming hardware platforms...

Binman is a firmware packaging tool. Modern firmware images can be complex, with dozens of pieces and various alignm...

OpenBMC is adding support for the Redfish API. The Redfish API is an open industry standard specification for hardwar...

BMCs generally come with protocols such as IPMI, is monitored via SNMP, and uses classical password authentication. W...

As the OpenBMC kernel maintainer, in this talk I will share with the community the efforts over the past year in upst...

Platform Management Components Intercommunication (PMCI) Working Group defines standards to address “inside the box” ...

NIC continues to be a single point failure for our platforms and this is especially true for multi-host platforms whe...

Redfish is an open industry-standard REST API designed for modern and secure management of server hardware. Redfish A...

This presentation guides the Arm Server System designers towards the common foundation for Server Management. Common ...

The lighting talk introduces the OpenBMC porting on a new OpenPOWER system FP5280G2. The porting mainly follows the ...

PLDM (Platform Level Data Model) Type 5 defines a protocol and a set of commands supporting out of band firmware upgr...

The Redfish standard is a suite of specifications that deliver an industry standard protocol providing a RESTful inte...

In this lightning talk I will present a draft proposal for new firmware verification infrastructure in coreboot that ...

When developing or testing firmware on a hardware platform, the developers have to either move flash chips between th...

The lightning talk will show the current state of coreboot on various Thinkpads. A comparison to vendor firmware wil...

The SBI interface on linux-on-litex-vexriscv allows us to boot Linux, on a 32-bit vexriscv RISC-V processor, with a f...

Recent generations of AMD processors implemented in coreboot have firmware based on AMD Generic Encapsulated Software...

Do you want to have all the tools on your linuxboot system that you have on your desktop, but you can't get them to f...

Which OS would you like to run today? With the LinuxBoot playground, you can run a different OS on each boot. Want to...

Discuss recent coreboot changes for IA platform to perform MP initialization.

When developing an IoT product, the most useful feedback comes when the end user has the product in their hands and w...

This session details AMD’s journey to align with Industry direction of open source firmware stacks. It focuses on the...

Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) is a standard published by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) organ...

Arm SystemReady is a new program bringing a level of consistency across a broad range of Arm-based devices in the clo...

Configuring all of the pieces for UEFI Secure Boot, generating keys in hardware tokens, signing kernels, integrating ...

When Linux, and it's open-source development model became a real alternative to operating systems like Solaris, AIX a...

In today's smart computing platforms, a thermal management solution needs to be reliable and sustainable on various s...

This talk will introduce some work in progress activities to enable Rust in EDK II. The session will include use cas...

With its rich feature set, regular release cycle cadence, and adoption into silicon vendors’ board support packages, ...

The new Intel Atom x6000E series features a Programmable Service Engine (PSE) which supports out-of-band and in-band ...

There is already no shortage of boot loaders for Linux, but Linux Kernel based bootloading via kexec has become popul...

I don't have to go through them — you've heard all the reasons why your company can't adopt open source firmware tech...

During this talk, I will introduce my ongoing work to port linuxboot on HPE platforms. The various strategies taken, ...

EDK2 firmware for Marvell Octeon TX2 CN913x chips can now be built entirely from public components. It was possible t...

With the advancement of open source firmware projects, we need a reliable quality assurance process to automate the f...

oreboot is a downstream fork of coreboot, with all C removed, and all code written in Rust. Since we spoke of oreboot...

coreboot is an open source firmware development framework and its history is reaching 1999. Its primary goal was to ...

System Management Mode (SMM), often referred to as ring -2, is an operating mode in x86 computer architecture that is...

This talk will discuss project X, which is aimed at eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs. These parts...

SeaBIOS is generally used as CSM on QEMU to boot legacy OS with UEFI BIOS. However, to achieve the same goal on physi...

Internet of Things projects are challenging because they contain comical exaggerations of the pitfalls you find in di...

In this talk I want to show the details of System Transparency's bootloader implementation. While the general ideas o...

I started my first reverse-engineering in 1995: NetBIOS "Network Neighbourhood" for Samba 1.9.16p5. I quickly moved ...

TrenchBoot is a young open source project aiming at security and integrity of the boot process leveraging advanced s...

Adding a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to OpenBMC will allow for a variety of useful features in the realm of ...

The UEFI specification is both extensive and intricate. Development of firmware against the specification would not b...

In May 2020, initial support for unit testing the coreboot landed in the tree - it was included in the 4.12 release. ...

Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX) introduce architectural elements to help deploy hardware-isolated, virtua...

`webboot` is an open-source tool to boot live ISO images from the web. Users have the option to set up a wifi connect...

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service is a webapp used by OEMs, ODMs and ISVs to distribute firmware updates safely and s...

Since 2012, Google has developed an open source embedded controller for Chromebooks. Recently, Google has committed t...

Philipp and Christian take you on a journey through the history of OSFC in this live talk. Learn about the beginnings...