On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 22:38:42 +0630 Frank Beuth <secli...@boxdan.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 04:21:50PM +0200, Mihai Popescu wrote: > >Why not an AMD Opteron A1100 based board? > > Because I haven't looked into it yet. > > This all started because I'm on vacation in a major electronics hub and saw a > Raspberry Pi at a local mall, thought it would be a fun project and > want to get away from Intel ME/AMD PSP binary blob-istan. > > Would love to have a totally open computer where all the code is auditable, > and have it be small enough to pack into my carryon for the flight home... Well, with RPiX you completely missed the target I'm afriad. If I'm correct, then whole SoC is booted on the side of video processor which loads some blobs into it, run ThreadX OS and then boots ARMv8 bootloader on ARM core. There have been some attempt to replace ThreadX and binary blob on RPiX, but so far IIRC unsuccessful. So if you like to have libre hardware w/o binary blobs, then you need to look elsewhere. I don't now situation in ARM land, but at least RaptorCS is very vocal about advertising their POWER9 boards as truly libre computer systems... The only issue with this is that OpenBSD does not fly on them.
