On 01/17/2018 02:15 PM, Cassandra of Troy wrote:
Much appreciated from lurker(s) as well as the OP.
Looking forward to unplugging this live USB stick and reading my mail on
Jessie tomorrow morning. :)
If any of you have the spare time to reply on or offlist, I value your
opinions on whether switching to an AMD processor from a libreboooted
Thinkpad something that an average joe should be prioritizing right now.
The C2D/Q and probably ivy and sandybridge too (ugh so lame) will not be
getting microcode updates from the bean counters at intel whereas AMD
will be updating at least bulldozer and above.
I would get a Lenovo G505S, no ME/PSP, and it has open CPU/RAM init via
coreboot, also has an IOMMU unlike the *200 series.
Blobs for video and power management but they can be removed eventually
as there is no hardware code signing enforcement.
Unfortunately the build quality is not as good as the *200 series and
the availability is not as good.
If you don't want a laptop a KCMA-D8 or KGPE-D16 board (libre firmware
available via libreboot or coreboot) with a 4386 (D8) or 6328 (D16) is
also a good affordable choice with no PSP/ME and is still able to play
new games.
also everyone should please note that coreboot doesn't necessary mean
open source firmware (ex: the sleazy purism marketing people) as it once did
On 01/17/2018 03:27 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 07:27:24AM +0100, marc wrote:
Spectre has no patch in the conventional sense. But there
are two types of things one can do:
* Move to a processor which doesn't speculate :) with so many
side effects. Processors found on the raspberry PI, for example,
are ok to use.
I was planning on a new laptop so I could use a reasonablly current API.
But with the execute-ahead fiasco, I am reluctant to put serious money
down on a vulnerable processor. So I'm getting a raspberry pi instead
and connecting it to my TV. Not really a laptop, no.
I not advise getting a RPI, the RPI foundation only likes open source
when it helps them (ie: free OS for their devices) - their devices
firmware and hardware is entirely closed source.
ARM devices with open source firmware/hardware do exist from other
companies.
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