Hello all; regarding dystopian direction; Christine Lemmer-Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> writes: > The modularity of the Reform design is the most hope I have for a FOSS > future on the otherwise largely dystopian direction of hardware lately. > Hopefully we will get better and better options over time for the SoCs > too.
I guess DDR4 RAM suffers from board-specific cross-talk and that is the main reason for free software support getting worse. Maybe firmware is made with proprietary board information to avoid cross-talk. Maybe free firmware could be made with time-intensive testing of the particular board, each time the firmware is built. Maybe instead of the real board, a virtual board “digital twin” could be used for training, which would be free software if the virtual board would only coarsely resemble the real non-free board. Maybe USB3 has similar cross-talk? But anyway, I guess the present is not really worse than the older, slower, flaky boards with full U-Boot free software support. Regards, Florian
