https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=avphHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:36:21 +0000This looks awesome for boot firmware. How large is the decompressor code?

]]>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:43:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925308avphhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925308https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925308Most are using synopsys IP I think, so they don't really have a say in it.

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:50:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461918avphhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461918https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461918The blog is made with hugo and you can find the theme at https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/hugo-emacs-theme if you're interested

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:42:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461816avphhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461816https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461816IANAL but on a technical level I'd say it's clean room and not subject to the original copyright for at least 2 reasons: the LLM for sure hasn't seen init code for this platform before, and there is no leak on the internet. It hallucinated register semantics often, suggesting it hasn't seen the original code. Also, coreboot code looks and, to some extent, works differently than the vendor reference code that I have seen for other platforms, making it not subject to any copyright claims. Lastly no copyright claim can be made on LLM generated works, but given the non-negligible human effort put into this, I'm not sure what the upshot is here. Still non copyrightable does not mean it's not free, it's something like public domain.

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:34:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459734avphhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459734https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459734You can get much more modern hardware with firmware. This was mostly an expirement to see how good LLM are at reverse engineering. Given that it went well I think making fully free (without Intel) x86-side firmware is possible.

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:20:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458663avphhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458663https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458663Author of that blog article here. I could probably do a port if you're willing to test and provide some dumps while running the vendor firmware.

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