> 2. AMD, who supports liberating the BIOS, and currently has no plans > and no CPU that implements hardwired spyware in silicon to subjugate > its users, and has a 95% liberated video stack? (That remaining 5%, > the kernel driver, is the most valuable piece that needs to be freed).
Any source for them not having such plans? (I don't know if what [0] describes is related.) The kernel driver is free (at least until the "golden registers init" was introduced [1], I don't know if these are documented or if it's ok if AMD developers also don't know what it does), only the microcode is nonfree (although they have nearly the same size if we count microcode for all devices). > With respect, I'm not so sure that the ethical superiority of intel is > so clear as you make it. I agree, users who want 3d acceleration working now with Trisquel probably disagree. (None of my devices has an Intel CPU.) [0] http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/06/13/1756205/amd-and-arm-team-up [1] e.g. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/commit/?h=drm-next-3.10-2&id=a2c96a2112a32b332aa7bf9622b122a18caf2dfc
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