On 01/19/2017 06:16 PM, Andrés Domínguez wrote:
2017-01-18 23:39 GMT+01:00 Timothy Pearson <[email protected]>:
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All,
I've been working on a new way to classify boards supported by coreboot
based on their freedom level.
Very good idea.
I uploaded the classification criteria to
the Wiki here
https://www.coreboot.org/Board_freedom_levels
There are a few things that I don't like about your categories,
specially the "scary red Pwned": Don't you think that people reading
the coreboot web page, will think that the "Pwned" are worse than
buying any random board not supported by coreboot, with the same
freedom issues? I would use not colored not named for the last
category. Gold, Silver and Bronze sound good to me, you could always
add Platinum and Iridium if more free boards appear and + or - for
every category that needs subcategories.
I also agree with Julius about the ARM platforms that have not
supported GPU or WIFI. For many use cases GPU is not needed, and WIFI
can be replaced by PCIe or USB one.
Andrés
FSP coreboot isn't the real thing, it is almost absolutely pointless as
it doesn't really do anything at all - we shouldn't entertain the purism
idiots who support that.
x86 is dead, in a year or so you won't be able to find any new non
FSP/ME/PSP type motherboards so we will be reduced to buying overpriced
used boards from ebay (kgpe-d16 - get em new while you can boys)
At this point the only realistic option is a campaign to make libre one
of the more affordable POWER8 systems, eventually they will come down in
price and it'll be affordable (in 2012 a brand new kgpe d16 plus new cpu
ram etc would be just as much as a lower end POWER8 is now)
Unfortunate despite all the linux sysadmin's who are making 100K+ per
year the authentic "hacker" culture[1] is nearly dead so nobody really
cares about free firmware enough to cough up real money for to make it a
reality, which is why TALOS failed.
[1] people who work for facebook, google or another web 2.0 trendster
company and who call themselves a "hacker" don't fall in to this category.
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