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Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Dasharo v0.9.0 Released

Published at May 15, 2026 · Michał Żygowski · 8 min read

Dasharo v0.9.0 for the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 server board is now available, bringing initial open-source firmware support based on coreboot 25.12 and AMD openSIL for the Turin processor family. This post covers the features included in the release, the known issues, testing environment improvements for AMD platforms, and a commentary on the platform openness score....

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Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Porting Update: BMC IPMI commands and Upstream

Published at December 5, 2025 · Michał Żygowski · 11 min read

The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 porting effort is slowly coming to an end. In the previous blog post we already showed a booting Linux and Windows. Now we show the finishing touches before Dasharo release: BMC IPMI commands, HCL tooling updates for the incoming Phoenix platforms and the Turin upstream status....

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Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Porting Update: ACPI and bugfixes

Published at November 5, 2025 · Michał Żygowski · 29 min read

In this blog post we will explain the effort of porting platform-specific ACPI code and show the extent of bugfixes required to run operating systems without issues on AMD Turin server platform, the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1....

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Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Porting Update: PCIe Init, BMC KVM Validation, and HCL Improvements

Published at October 10, 2025 · Michał Żygowski · Mateusz Kusiak · 22 min read

Another post about the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 porting effort progress. This time, we add definitions for PCI Express initialization, and validate BMC KVM VGA and keyboard. Also, improvements to HCL reporting and data dumping on AMD systems have been made....

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AMD PSP blob analysis on Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Turin system

Published at September 12, 2025 · Michał Żygowski · 14 min read

The blog post describes the analysis of PSP blobs on Gigabyte. MZ33-AR1. The analysis covers various aspects of stitching AMD firmware BIOS images and how a support for stitching Turin blobs was developed in coreboot....

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Mapping and initializing USB and SATA ports on Gigabyte MZ33-AR1

Published at September 12, 2025 · Michał Żygowski · 26 min read

As the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 porting effort progresses, coreboot has to add definitions for I/O bus initialization, such as SATA, USB and PCI Express. If you are curious how it is done on an AMD Turin-based system, read till the end....

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Porting Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 server board with AMD Turin CPU to coreboot

Published at August 7, 2025 · Michał Żygowski · 20 min read

The blog post describes effort made to port a modern AMD server board to coreboot. The target is Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 supporting newest AMD EPYC server processor family Turin and OpenSIL....

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