> “We want to open [Metalium] to the point that everything is 100% transparent,” she said. “We will click ‘open’ on our Github repo, and the world will be able to see everything that we’re doing internally.
That's would be massive. Will that also apply to firmware?
Firmware can sometimes get a bit complicated due to third party IP used and whether that can be opensourced, but within those constraints this is the ambition.
I.e things like memory controller setup and link training is often constrained by the IP vendors on whether you can share it in source form.
Good news in general though -- there isn't a lot of firmware on these cards in the path of the workloads, most of it is around system management and thermals/power.
Terminology-wise some of pieces in the code base are called firmware, but are loaded at runtime and built as part of the usual build process. It's more of a linked-with-the-workload libraries than resident FW. (There's some of both though).
That's would be massive. Will that also apply to firmware?