[coreboot] Coreboot Purism BIOS is free? open?

Alberto Bursi alberto.bursi at outlook.it
Sat Dec 23 13:08:30 CET 2017



On 12/23/2017 11:54 AM, Nico Huber wrote:
> On 23.12.2017 11:39, Nico Huber wrote:
>> [1] I'm convinced that this is easily doable. At least compared to the
>>      effort you already put in liberating the unliberatable. If the i.MX8
>>      turns out to be as controllable and well documented as the i.MX6,
>>      you'd be catapulted towards the end of your freedom roadmap.
>>
> Now that I've looked at your roadmap again, there's a flaw at the
> beginning: AUIU, at least Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo sell products
> that are on par with yours (Chromebooks). Actually you're basing
> your firmware on their investments into it. So it seems unfair to
> list them there. Some even sell ARM devices that are far ahead (in
> terms of freedom and owner-controllability; not in your roadmap
> because that has a very weird order).
>
> Nico
>

Meh, chromebooks aren't exactly powerful systems anyway. Also I don't 
know other ARM devices that are more free than ARM chromebooks (again 
not really powerful systems).

-Alberto


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