Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces

The value of transparency in engineering can have huge benefits--nothing can compare to the momentum of an enthusiastic community! Bryan and Adam discuss the value of transparency at the hardware/software interface with Oxide colleague, Ryan Goodfellow. Transparency can be scary--especially in the hardware domain where secrecy is the norm--but once we knock down some of those fears, the business benefits start to emerge.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill (bsky.app/profile/bcantrill.bsky.social) and Adam Leventhal (bsky.app/profile/ahl.bsky.social), we were joined by Oxide colleague, Ryan Goodfellow.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
• Oxide RFD 552: Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces (rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0552)
• Belling the cat (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat)
• github.com/openSIL/openSIL
• Kerckhoff's principle (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs)
• PRs needed!
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