I was wondering how long before you started again with your misplaced tirades against Puri.sm.
Suffices to sat to demolish whatever you wrote that we're talking of a *smartphone*, not laptops! I.e. something that has no Intel chips inside. Are there OpenPOWER-powered smartphones? Would you ever do some reading before, or better yet instead, of barking at everything that moves and is not from IBM? Alessandro On 31/10/18 at 23:59, [email protected] wrote: > Everyone here knows purism stuff is blobbed right? > > Their laptops have coreboot but that isn't open source firmware - the > hardware init process on their laptops is entirely blobbed (done via > FSP) and they are are being very dishonest for not stating this up front > and instead claiming to have "open source firmware" > > They also claim their laptops have a disabled ME which is impossible - > even with HAP on skylake the kernel and bup hw init still run. > > Trying to have freedom on modern x86 systems is being naive and beating > a dead horse at best - an incredibly dishonest scam at worst. > > I expect their mobile devices to be just as non-free and dishonest when > it comes to their touted security (usb isn't modem isolation!) > considering their track record for ignoring the community and not caring > what anyone thinks. > > Alternatives: > The g505s is an open cpu/ram init owner controlled ME/PSP free > alternative to the faux-libre laptops which with the best compatible > circa 2013 quad core A10 is nearly equivilant now that intel's cpu > performance is ruined via the spectre/meltdown fixes. > > If you want an owner controlled performance system either you buy old > x86 or you buy OpenPOWER - there is nothing else. > > x86 will never be free whereas with OpenPOWER you get an OEM[1] that > actually listens and implements suggestions provides help with small > system integrators like raptor (they asked for and received various > things from ibm needed to have an entirely libre firmware including the > hardware init process for their systems) > > [1]OP is one of the rare gems from IBM...it blows my mind the future of > computing freedom is from them...I guess they did it because better > performance alone isn't reason to switch to POWER there needed to be > more compelling reasons and now they have one. > > Here's to hoping for an OpenPOWER laptop. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Alessandro Selli <[email protected]> VOIP SIP: [email protected] Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE
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