On 09.10.2017 00:15, Taiidan@gmx.com wrote:
their version of coreboot is nothing more than a wrapper layer for intel FSP (binary blob that does all the hardware init) which is next to pointless for the amount of money you would spend on one as all it does is move trust from vendor to OEM not avoiding the hypothetical OEM firmware backdoors.
I've seen that mentioned a lot and can only say: Please stop spreading that FUD about coreboot. Even with blobed silicon init, coreboot still gives you about 80% of the freedom of a free firmware. You only have to trust in one party that provides the blob and not in n parties that put their code into the usual Windows booting firmware. coreboot, even blobed, also gives you much more freedom about the platform configu- ration and the boot process as a whole.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like FSP either (from a developer point of view, it makes coreboot porting twice as hard and 10 times more frus- trating if something doesn't work right away). You can stomp on it as you wish. But please don't disgrace coreboot.
Nico