[coreboot] Coreboot Purism BIOS is free? open?

[Ivan Ivanov]

Sadly the ARM processor also have the ME-like backdoor (called "TrustZone).
And even MIPS is going this road soon (check out the "MIPS OmniShield" news).

Could it be the requirement of US Government - for all the consumer
CPU to have backdoors ?
My last hopes are on POWER 9 and RISC V now ; meanwhile sticking to
the AMD pre-PSP tech

Best regards,
Ivan Ivanov


2017-12-23 15:08 GMT+03:00 Alberto Bursi <alberto.bursi at outlook.it>:
>
>
> 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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