my undestanding is that they had to build not only the entire hardware platform from scratch, but also the software. in one of his talks Bryan Cantrill talks a

my undestanding is that they had to build not only the entire hardware platform from scratch, but also the software. in one of his talks Bryan Cantrill talks about how AMD cpus were meant to be booted off a uefi microcode, and AMD themselves told them such... Until they kinda reverse engineered the AGESA thingy and made the cpu boot without bios/uefi. I guess that's the kind of things that take a lot of time... the first time. In the future they'll likely to be iterating faster. EDIT: i wrote the comment above to the best of my knowledge, somebody from Oxide might chime in and maybe add some more details :)