Why Firmware Is Going Open Source, Fast
What actually happens between the moment a server powers on and the instant your operating system boots?
In this episode of WaveSession #3, Chris Walter, co-founder of firmware engineering firm 9Elements and founder of the Open Source Firmware Foundation, pulls back the curtain on BIOS, BMC, and root-of-trust firmware, and explains why the once-closed, NDA-locked firmware industry is rapidly going open source.
Chris walks through his unconventional path into firmware, starting with a master's thesis attempting to brute-force a cryptographic algorithm using FPGA clusters, and evolving through…
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