On 09.02.21 20:40, Arthur Heymans wrote: > I wish we had enough leverage as a community to change the silicon > vendors way, but that is just not the case. I feel however that things > improve in the right direction. OSF on server hardware is becoming a > thing again, which was not the case at all a few years back.
It's us moving though, and not the silicon vendors. Sure, they move too, but for every step they take in the open-source direction, we take two steps closer to their blobs. For the OCP contributions, I'd even estimate a 1-to-5 steps ratio: They did not only re-introduce NDA blobs to be run inside coreboot, they also seem to want every blob around coreboot to be integrated. And, AFAIK, soon also runtime resident blobs. What would be left? the coreboot console, an SMM loader and a PCI allo- cator. I would not call that coreboot, not even blobboot or shimboot. We once had such a component internally, we called it "crpldr". Feel free to fill some vowels. Things are moving. Not into the right direction, though. Every compromise is made on our side. Nico _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org
