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Sage Engineering updates Minnow firmware
Sage Engineering maintains a Coreboot-based, SeaBIOS payload-based firmware for the Intel MinnowBoard MAX. Today, they’ve announced an updated release. This update allows for flashing the boot image...
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PAE-enabled SeaBIOS
On the SeaBIOS mailing list, Kevin O’Connor recently provided a patch to SeaBIOS to enable it to run in PAE mode. SeaBIOS is the main open source implementation of 16-bit x86 BIOS, used in coreboot,...
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SeaBIOS 1.9.0 released
Kevin O’Connor announced the release of SeaBIOS version 1.9.0 today, on the SeaBIOS, QEMU-devel, and coreboot mailing lists. New in this release: * The default boot menu key is now the ESC key (instead...
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Wikipedia’s BIOS security roadmap
You’d think that with a blog called ‘firmware security’, I’d know about the ‘Wikipedia BIOS feature comparison’ page. But I did not, sad. :-( The other day I was wishing someone would create a...
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SeaBIOS TPM support improved
Stefan Berger of IBM submitted a 6-part patch to the SeaBIOS project, updating it’s TPM support, his patch comment follows: This series of patches extends the TPM2 code to extend the BIOS related PCRs...
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SeaBIOS 1.10.0 released!
Kevin O’Connor announced the 1.10.0 release of SeaBIOS. New in this release: * Initial support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0 * Several USB XHCI timing fixes on real hardware * Support...
View ArticleSeaBIOS 1.11.0 released
New in this release: * Initial support for NVME drives * Support for vga emulation over a serial port in SeaBIOS (sercon) * Support for serial debugging using MMIO based serial ports * Support for scsi...
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Purism Librem15 fails CHIPSEC security tests
Current Purism Librem15 systems — based on Intel x64/coreboot/SeaBIOS tech — results in 3 FAILs and 1 WARNING from CHIPSEC: The UEFI Forum recommends that OEMs pass CHIPSEC’s tests before shipping...
View ArticleSeaBIOS 1.12.0 released
Kevin O’Connor announced release 1.12.0 of SeaBIOS: New in this release: * Initial support for “TPM CRB” hardware * Improved cdrom media reporting in the boot menu on QEMU * Improved floppy support on...
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