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Ron Minnich

On The Metal

CHAPTER

Boot-Not-Brick and User Control

This chapter discusses the concept of boot-not-brick in Open System firmware and the goal of allowing users to have control over the firmware. It covers vulnerabilities in chips, the importance of finding and addressing them, and the need for user control in building and burning firmware. The chapter also highlights the potential problem of not being able to rewrite firmware on future servers and the aspiration to have companies provide machines with open system firmware.

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