On 05.11.21 19:39, Patrick Georgi via coreboot wrote:
Am Fr., 5. Nov. 2021 um 18:16 Uhr schrieb Martin Roth via coreboot < coreboot@coreboot.org>:
The current reality is that binary blobs are needed for almost every platform in coreboot. I believe the coreboot leadership is united behind the unfortunate reality that allowing these blobs is a requirement for the platform. I don't think we're going to refuse a platform right now simply because it has blobs. I'm not sure what coreboot would look like right now if we'd started refusing blobs when the required blobs started appearing, but it definitely wouldn't have many modern platforms.
It would be dead: while there are still a few folks carefully maintaining i945 and GM45 in this reality, I'm not sure they would have done so in that other reality where there was no help maintaining the payloads (and so coreboot-compatible seabios, tianocore, grub, filo, ... would all be on their plate as well)
That seems an odd assessment. Did you confuse blobs that are "required" in coreboot with blobs that sit in the same storage medium (e.g. ME firmware)? It also seems that you underestimate the individuals in the community.
Nico