[coreboot] greetings and laptop questions

[Youness Alaoui]

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Taiidan at gmx.com <Taiidan at gmx.com> wrote:
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>> (I also am looking at system76 and Purism but I am bit leery of spending a
>> lot with a small / new company - comments appreciated)
>
> Purism dishonestly markets their products - while they claim that their
> laptops "respect freedom and privacy" 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.
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> System76 is a fine choice if all you want is a laptop that runs linux
> without difficulty.
>

I don't get why you constantly try to discredit Purism and insult
everything we do. You complain about coreboot being "useless" because
it uses FSP, but you fail to mention that anything using coreboot will
use the FSP unless it's 10 year old hardware (Sandybridge is the
latest FSP-free supported CPU). The original email asked about a
coreboot port, not a libreboot port. Every time I see purism
mentioned, you have to jump in to insult and dishonestly say that
Purism is dishonest. If you want to claim bullshit like that, at least
find something real and concrete to back it up. I've ignored you many
times, but I'm fed up of your one-man vendetta against Purism. What
happened to you for you to have so much hate against us?

Extremely funny how you then say that System76 is "a fine choice"
considering that System76 doesn't even come with coreboot, and even if
it did come with coreboot, it would of course, still depend on the
FSP. Also, System76 hardware depends on components which do require
binary blobs, as opposed to Purism laptops, so I don't get why
System76 is "a fine choice" if Purism isn't.

To answer Jim, the Purism Librem 15 doesn't support 32 GB of RAM, but
it does run coreboot and will come with a disabled ME (blog post
announcing that is pending). If you need a laptop which runs linux
without the need for any of the binary firmware blobs (firmware-linux
package in debian), where the company is actively working on
eliminating the remaining blobs in the system (the ME, the FSP and
VGABIOS) then you might want to look at Purism, if you don't care
about those issues and/or require 32GB of RAM (which our laptops don't
support), then you should discard Purism from your list of choices and
look for something else.

I hope that helps.
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