On 09.10.2017 00:15, [email protected] wrote: > 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.
I've seen that mentioned a lot and can only say: Please stop spreading that FUD about coreboot. Even with blobed silicon init, coreboot still gives you about 80% of the freedom of a free firmware. You only have to trust in one party that provides the blob and not in n parties that put their code into the usual Windows booting firmware. coreboot, even blobed, also gives you much more freedom about the platform configu- ration and the boot process as a whole. Don't get me wrong, I don't like FSP either (from a developer point of view, it makes coreboot porting twice as hard and 10 times more frus- trating if something doesn't work right away). You can stomp on it as you wish. But please don't disgrace coreboot. Nico -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
