… Coreboot's design philosophy is to implement the absolute "bare minimum" necessary to ensure hardware is usable, a philosophy that is extremely rare to see in the world of UEFI firmware creation. coreboot has been around for decades and has been supported largely in Chromebooks, Thinkpads, and olde… …
… Sometimes, though, it's not an actual hardware fault. …
… IOMMU generates repeated page faults and restarts that interfere with the firmware running on the DMA device's FPGA, corrupting it and rendering both the hardware and the associated SSD unusable. …
… The new Z990 and Z970 chipsets will be used on OC-ready motherboards with higher-end features and hardware than the rest of the 900 series boards, with the flagship Z990 chipset expected to feature 48 PCIe lanes, 2 x USB4/TB4 ports, 12 PCIe 5.0 lanes, 12 PCIe 4.0 lanes, 8 x SATA 3.0 ports, up to 5 … …
… Adding to the mix, hardware enthusiast Kepler suggests Apple's future A21 SoC might be the prime candidate for such a partnership, potentially breaking Apple's total reliance on TSMC. …