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Hi Timothy, > I have taken much of the feedback received into account, and revised the > freedom level categories at > https://www.coreboot.org/Board_freedom_levels somewhat. Specifically, > the "Pwned" category is now factually stated as "Vendor Controlled", and > the EC exception in the Silver category was removed, among other minor > tweaks. > > These changes had the effect of demoting all Lenovo laptops to Bronze, > and promoting the ASUS C201 (Google Veyron) to Gold. I am still not > 100% sure that I like the Veyron at Gold status due to the WiFi > controller, but I will accept it for now pending introduction of > libre-friendly (firmware-free or HW enforced radio limits with libre > firmware) WiFi chipsets. > > Comments welcome! Generally, I like this revised version. Some minor suggestions: - if you stress the word "require" in the "vendor controlled" section, I would suggest to stress the words "require absolutely no" and "require some" in the above sections. - the forecast "No amount of reverse engineering or hacking will ever allow a fully libre firmware to execute on these boards." sounds too much like a fact and too pesimistic to me to. Although it reflects the current state of what we know, I would be careful with making such "absolute" forecasts. - the term "pwned" is still in the introduction. - I would mention in the introduction that this is a classification for Coreboot-supported boards, not one for boards in general. This is not really clear from the introduction. Therefore, I would also state "All coreboot-supported AMD hardware" and so on in the vendor-controlled section. - the term "libre software operating system" is sort of fuzzy, especially as you take into account operating systems which ship kernels that contain non-free components (at least the FSF claims that). Cheers, Daniel -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
