Re: [qubes-users] Qubes Certified Desktop

2020-05-05 Thread Anil
I did contact them, but they have their own arguments and according to them the FSF-RYF certification is more than sufficient. They say as it is compatible with coreboot version 4.11 and Qubes OS works as expected, there is nothing more to be done in that direction. I don't have a technical answer

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes Certified Desktop

2020-05-05 Thread insurgotech
On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 4:41:16 AM UTC-4, Anil wrote: > > > Nope I can't. You would have to search around for parts following this > doc, do some soldering to adapt spi chip, buy it, reprogram it with > firmware built from source, buy compatible RAM and fastest CPU, case, power > supply

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes Certified Desktop

2020-05-01 Thread dhorf-hfref . 4a288f10
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 11:19:45AM +0530, Anil wrote: > system perhaps? Or better, some older version of NUC or other mini PC? NUCs will not allow you to do anything weird with the firmware, so no me_cleaner or coreboot or so. they work reasonably well with qubes. > I know Purism is selling a

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes Certified Desktop

2020-05-01 Thread Anil
> Maybe they would be willing to give back to the community? If you do not have > funds but some time to spend, showing your interest to them of this kind of > partnership would mean the world me, pointing here, and have a total > different impact then if I was the one contacting them.

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes Certified Desktop

2020-05-01 Thread Insurgo Technologies Libres / Open Technologies
On May 1, 2020 8:40:57 AM UTC, Anil wrote: >> Nope I can't. You would have to search around for parts following >this doc, do some soldering to adapt spi chip, buy it, reprogram it >with firmware built from source, buy compatible RAM and fastest CPU, >case, power supply and ssd. Information

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes Certified Desktop

2020-05-01 Thread Anil
> Nope I can't. You would have to search around for parts following this doc, > do some soldering to adapt spi chip, buy it, reprogram it with firmware built > from source, buy compatible RAM and fastest CPU, case, power supply and ssd. > Information is scattered around. When I said

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes Certified Desktop

2020-05-01 Thread Anil
> Kgpe-d16 is supported under heads, is blobless and supported by coreboot 4.11 > and heads under coreboot 4.8.1 as of right now with plans of Can you give an approximate price (right now no one is shipping, so they are not showing the price either)? Any particular processor that is more

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes Certified Desktop

2020-05-01 Thread Insurgo Technologies Libres / Open Technologies
Kgpe-d16 is supported under heads, is blobless and supported by coreboot 4.11 and heads under coreboot 4.8.1 as of right now with plans of upgrading to latest version supporting it before support got dropped since not enough attention nor love was given to it to justify upstream maintainership.