Well, these are sad news. I'm surprised that the amount of blobs is so high in modern hardware. Without desiring to criticize or judge the project: What's the goal for the future, when even you admit that there's no great difference in technical aspects to vendor firmware? The sole purpose of free hardware may be honorable, but my personal believe is that efficiency is more important to people.
Am 30.01.2017 um 23:09 schrieb Timothy Pearson:
On 01/30/2017 02:12 PM, Philipp Stanner wrote:
I'm primary interested in it because of faster booting speed and in general getting rid off the stone-age functions vendor bios contains which are completely unnecessary to boot a modern x86-computer.
I don't mind if coreboot contains cpu microcode etc.
As far as I know the only total free computer is the X60.
But isn't this whole privacy issue more a topic for libreboot?
No, not really -- people have many reasons for wanting to use coreboot over a vendor firmware, and these reasons influence our recommendations.
Furthermore, I was specifically referring to the ME|PSP and FSP|binaryPI, not microcode. On many modern systems coreboot is a simple shim around vendor firmware, and in such cases you may or not gain anything by using coreboot versus the vendor firmware, depending of course on how the vendor implemented their firmware. This includes boot time; on platforms with large amounts of RAM where most of the time is spent in memory initialization, you will effectively be running the same MRC binary as the vendor firmware, so you won't really see a decrease in boot time.