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Qubes OS Summit 2025 in Berlin: From R4.3 Features to Qubes Air Architecture
Published at October 20, 2025 · 22 min read
Qubes OS Summit 2025 took place September 26-28 in Berlin, bringing together the community for talks on R4.3 updates, GUI improvements, infrastructure advances, and Qubes Air architecture. The event featured contributions from the Dasharo ecosystem including server firmware foundations, NovaCustom updates, UEFI Secure Boot progress, and TrenchBoot compatibility work. Day three hackathon focused on practical implementation including the Dasharo Patchqueue Initiative with XenServer expertise....
Categories: firmware os-dev security
Dasharo Compatible with MSI PRO Z690-A Release v1.1.2
Published at September 8, 2023 · 10 min read
Discover the latest Dasharo v1.1.2 release, designed with you in mind. Enjoy the freedom to personalize with the new logo customization feature, and flash open-source firmware safely with Flash BIOS recovery support. Its about making firmware both fun and secure. Dive in to find out more....
Our contribution to coreboot 4.20 release
Published at May 18, 2023 · 4 min read
🎉 Celebrating coreboot 4.20 release! 🚀 Kudos to our contributors who have pushed the envelope in firmware security & optimization. Key updates: improved SoC support, TPM security, VT-d DMA protection & more. Check out the blog for all the details....
Categories: firmware
3mdeb Insights: A Look into 3mdeb's Open-Source Contributions
Published at April 27, 2023 · 13 min read
We're thrilled to share our team's summary of open-source contributions from 2021 to the first half of 2023 with you. We've actively worked on enhancing various projects, including coreboot and fwupd. Our involvement has not only boosted the functionality and security of these projects but also equipped us with valuable expertise for our clients. Stay tuned for an insightful blog post diving into our open-source contributions!...
Categories: firmware manufacturing
Infrastructure for Xen development and debugging
Published at July 4, 2022 · 5 min read
Back in 2018 at OSFC, we've presented AMD IOMMU enabling for PC Engines apuX (GX-412TC) platforms. Our hypervisor of choice was Xen and we used it to verify the PCI pass-through feature. Unfortunately, the booting process was not exactly stable. In this article, you can check how to prepare infrastructure for Xen development and debugging...
Categories: firmware os-dev security
Open Compute Open System Firmware (OCP OSF) and its' importance
Published at June 10, 2021 · 6 min read
Let's figure out what is OCP Open System Firmware, see how it relates to the Open Source Firmware (OSF) - and why it is important for your company to have one running on your product....
Categories: firmware miscellaneous
Thoughts around OSFC 2020 – day 1
Published at December 21, 2020 · 6 min read
Lets share some thoughts that evolved during the OSFC 2020 talks and send kudos to many people who made this conference happen....
GRUB2 and 3mdeb minisummit 2019
Published at February 19, 2020 · 7 min read
In December 2019 we had pleasure to meet Daniel Kiper #GRUB2 maintanaer in 3mdeb office in Gdańsk. We discussed various #GRUB2, #Xen, #firmware, #coreboot, #security and #TPM related topics. Results of that "minisummit" was presented in following blog post in form of presentations and videos....
Categories: firmware os-dev security
Platform Security Summit 2019 impressions. Part 1
Published at October 22, 2019 · 5 min read
We are happy to announce that 3mdeb representation took part in Platform Security Summit 2019. In the next weeks we are going to briefly refer what took our attention and enclose the course of this conference....
Categories: miscellaneous security
How to build an Embedded Systems Consulting business?
Published at September 6, 2019 · 11 min read
At some point in engineer career we may consider building our own consulting business. In following blog post I share the experience that I gained building 3mdeb Embedded Systems Consulting....
Categories: miscellaneous