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....
Categories: firmware
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....
Categories: firmware
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....
Categories: firmware
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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