AMD has no plans to release PSP code
One thing that kind of bothers me is that I keep seeing people justify this decision by mentioning that AMD may be using third party source code which they do not have the license to release.<p>My issue with that is that I don’t see how it prevents AMD from releasing a super stripped down (essentially disabled), but still closed source version of the firmware. There may very well be a valid justification for not doing so - I just don’t know.<p>An even better approach would be to allow the system to run without the firmware at all. If I remember correctly, some Intel machines will run for 30 minutes without the firmware, but will shut down after the time elapses. If true, that at least proves that it’s not essential for system operation.<p>In the case of Intel, surely they could have disabled this 30 minute timer on the consumer CPUs (just like how they disable ECC support).