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AGESA became particularly relevant with the AM4 platform, which AMD designed for futureproofing, and as of May 2019 has served as the base for three different generations of CPUs based on its Zen architecture. For each of these generations, a new branch of AGESA code has been released. AGESA
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chips, and started with version 1.0.0.4. In December 2017, when Summit PI reached version 1.0.0.7, the branch was renamed to "Raven PI" (its version numbering was not reset), and it was released as the first version of AGESA to support
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In April 2023, AMD announced plans to replace the aging AGESA codebase with a new open-source firmware called "AMD openSIL". The new firmware is expected to be ready by 2026.
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versioning often runs separately for each of these three releases, so numbering regressions are bound to happen when going from one generation to the next.
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Then in March 2019, the third iteration of AGESA, named "ComboAM4 PI", was released, starting at version 0.0.7.0, introducing support for
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Link to AGESA source code in coreboot. The repository history contains AGESA source code for previously-supported platforms.
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The first version, named "Summit PI", launched in February 2017. It was targeted at the
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AGESA was open sourced in early 2011, aiming to aid in the development of
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of such mainboards, AGESA is responsible for the initialization of the
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The second version, supporting the Zen's second generation, known as
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Advanced Micro Devices
Platform Initialization
AMD64
BIOS
CPU cores
HyperTransport

adding to it
coreboot
BIOS
first generation Zen
Raven Ridge APUs
Zen+
Zen 2
AM5
Bootstrapping (computing)
Coreboot
Memory Reference Code
"Technical details on AMD's coreboot source code release"
AMD
the original
"AMD's binary-only AGESA libraries"
"AMD AGESA 1.0.0.7 Update Will Add Raven Ridge Support"
"Socket AM4 motherboard BIOS update - ready for Ryzen 3000 CPUs - Series 500 Chipset"
"Asus x670-p bios"

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