Hello. I'd like to ask two questions about running OpenBSD on Core/Librebooted machines:
(1) I know there's been compatibility issues in the past. Is it still the case? More importantly, are they such that the setup would more likely mean just replacing the security risks those projects seek to address with new ones? (2) I'm a sysadmin with zero experience writing drivers, firmware, kernel patches. I want to eventually be able to contribute something useful to the intersection of both projects, but I don't know where to begin. Can you point me in some general direction? Topics to learn, books you've found useful?[1] Considering that, A. I've searched the mailing lists (and r/openbsd) for mentions of "coreboot" and "libreboot," read the changelogs (though, given my lack of knowledge, I may not have recognized relevant changes), besides reading (Core/Libre)boot's documentation; B. My concerns about "features" like amd_psd and intel_me aren't merely academic. I work with journalists and our government has unique interpretations of human rights; C. Theo de Raadt says on the parent subject:[2] > And meanwhile, Intel added undocumented strong speculation to their > cpus, which are now easily CVE-identifiable as verifiable giant > security problems to a majority platform. And the more we dig, more > we realize they did this as market force, ignoring the risks they > identified at conferences a decade earlier. D. And brynet: "[...] there's only so much operating systems can do to mitigate against physical hardware bugs, same goes for buggy hypervisor hosts;"[3] E. But kmos-ports: "Coreboot and Libreboot were written for use specifically with Linux. They often skip initializing the hardware properly and cause problems with OpenBSD."[4] Thank you, AJ [1] I've checked the list of recommended books. I'm currently going through "The Unix Programming Environment" and will start fleshing out my C alongside once I reach chapter 6. [2] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=156238500027310 [3] https://teddit.net/r/openbsd/comments/two0se/\ amd_cpu_firmware_microcode_current/i3in9zm/ [4] https://teddit.net/r/openbsd/comments/l1o0r0/\ openbsd_with_fde_on_a_librebooted_thinkpad_x200/gk1g2dy/
