-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 06/20/2018 09:13 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/hardware/motherboards-chipsets/1021175-risc-v-sifive-freedom-unleahsed-540-soc-hifive-unleashed-board-added-to-coreboot > > The board costs almost as much as a significantly faster and with much > more features (IOMMU!) TALOS 2 Lite so I think it is not really worth > buying right now for someone like me but I am still very curious about it. > > - Unlike the usual crappy SOC products like this there is an available > sexy expansion board which contains not one but two PCI-e slots and > various other expansion options including SATA...which all really should > have came standard. But unfortunately once you buy all the extras that > make it usable you could have bought a very nice T2 setup so this is > only for the die-hard hero developers and early adopters. (But I wish I > had the cash for both!) > > > My questions: > > Is it possible to do normal stuff like browse the internet and watch a > film via video acceleration if you pop in a decent graphics card? > > Are there absolutely no binary blobs? Not even for the NIC? It is > difficult to find NIC ASIC's that don't have blobs and with RISCV's > unfortunate lack of an IOMMU this is a very big security issue for > RISCV. At least with the TALOS 2 there is POWER-IOMMU to isolate it from > doing anything evil and various people are working on a libre > replacement which will benefit the entire libre community and anyone > that likes cheap+good nics. > > Whats the deal with SMM? What a shame they thought to add it. > > > I really hope this succeeds and that they eventually add an IOMMU. >
Their bootloader is a blob in ROM, for what it's worth. They also will not release source for it [1]. I haven't looked further since that alone is a dealbreaker for an "open" / auditable chip. [1] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5127 - -- Timothy Pearson Raptor Engineering +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line) +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard) https://www.raptorengineering.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJbK0IrAAoJEK+E3vEXDOFbEgsH/Rtp94joxCtDEbDXEkO5fzXv GdnPoiDZksSDp2BmjFrcTtA3wb5f44WIiM+IanQ+HO1xnQDnEcCOoiAFE1eJ/j+1 JdUpLUy77u6D0j8gKcmuVct8VW+99o9F7RIHXpzkyRAXKf6WycHGxElsTSBpBWL3 UvAh3B0fknlENGJWKGVNfUPyUwgCzlJKN5fJd6izukcA9lg/x+6HRRmrQZFXM2l3 fe4n0p0j/20N8ex+142AAR4FuOdrYRCkhN7FIm/Aq3gwp3FiHJOhdytmMyDmkfL/ KxeZhDvxG4Oubi9kqa+yDP08HOJYtZ690usNXQCwZkfsvGmpsYts/WZvWmesGFI= =PhY+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot