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Hi Timothy,
I have taken much of the feedback received into account, and revised the freedom level categories at https://www.coreboot.org/Board_freedom_levels somewhat. Specifically, the "Pwned" category is now factually stated as "Vendor Controlled", and the EC exception in the Silver category was removed, among other minor tweaks.
These changes had the effect of demoting all Lenovo laptops to Bronze, and promoting the ASUS C201 (Google Veyron) to Gold. I am still not 100% sure that I like the Veyron at Gold status due to the WiFi controller, but I will accept it for now pending introduction of libre-friendly (firmware-free or HW enforced radio limits with libre firmware) WiFi chipsets.
Comments welcome!
Generally, I like this revised version. Some minor suggestions:
- if you stress the word "require" in the "vendor controlled" section, I would suggest to stress the words "require absolutely no" and "require some" in the above sections. - the forecast "No amount of reverse engineering or hacking will ever allow a fully libre firmware to execute on these boards." sounds too much like a fact and too pesimistic to me to. Although it reflects the current state of what we know, I would be careful with making such "absolute" forecasts. - the term "pwned" is still in the introduction. - I would mention in the introduction that this is a classification for Coreboot-supported boards, not one for boards in general. This is not really clear from the introduction. Therefore, I would also state "All coreboot-supported AMD hardware" and so on in the vendor-controlled section. - the term "libre software operating system" is sort of fuzzy, especially as you take into account operating systems which ship kernels that contain non-free components (at least the FSF claims that).
Cheers, Daniel