On Tue, 2022-04-19 at 11:33 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:

> Here's a somewhat radical idea: I propose that we make option (1) and
> (2) conditional on all Debian infra switching to hardware entirely free
> of binary firmware/microcode blobs.
> 
> Because if *we* can't do it, then imposing this stringency on our users
> is outright idealist hypocrisy.

Even before we get to being able to run Debian infra using free
firmware, lots of the x86 servers that make up the Debian infra require
proprietary software running on the CPU, mostly for managing the
hardware; sensors, RAID, BMCs, fault detection and other things.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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