On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:40:58AM -0400, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > I doubt it will be owner controlled, as their laptops aren't - they still > haven't even gotten a blobbed version of coreboot working (blobbed init code > + ME enabled as they insisted on a crappy intel soc) > Purism isn't a trustworthy company.
You might be interested in Pinebook. While this is on the opposite end to Talos 2 (costs $89 instead of $6.5k), mainline u-boot+ATF+kernel are completely blob-free: the initial bootloader in ROM is really minimal and hands off full control over the hardware to user-controlled code. The BSP (vendor u-boot+kernel) do have sourceless blobs, but the mainline is mostly there. At least, drivers are functional (display has only simplefb rather than proper DRM but that's being worked on), what's missing is a proper DT. Device tree code for this and related hardware is done mostly by Icenowy Zheng; alas she hasn't fully upstreamed the work yet and using her WIP tree requires more u-boot skills than I have. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Vat kind uf sufficiently advanced technology iz dis!? ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- Genghis Ht'rok'din ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
