On 05/05/2018 03:21 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 05.05.18 05:32, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> But whilst I still can, I'll at least run my own servers and rely on the >> "cloud" as little as possible. Librem 5 phone coming next year for me. > If there isn't an ARM board sufficiently free of remote control > parasitic low level engines, then perhaps there's a RISC-V offering in > the pipeline with a little luck. Apparently there are a few of them in coreboot which are almost free, but do you mean an ARM laptop or an ARM server/workstation? I believe coreboot only has the first although there were some recent posts talking about how the thunderX server board is somewhat free I would suggest checking them out.
The two main issues I see with RiscV is that they have implemented SMM and that there is no IOMMU which I believe is mandatory for any system these days especially one that has complex un-trusted devices such as graphics cards with binary firmware. I do everything in VM's via multiple graphics cards on my KGPE-D16 including watching movies and playing games, I no longer have to worry that for instance a mod I download will steal my data as the VM has no data. I hope they start adding IOMMU's to phones to restrict the baseband and assorted hardware, even using a non DMA bus is still very dangerous and non-isolated when you consider badusb style attacks.
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