Hi Ron, On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 12:30 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 8:07 PM Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> IMOHO, RISC-V will be the long-term solution in the future;-) >> > > people need to stop saying that. It's not that simple. And, sadly, riscv may > be baking in an SMM-like mode that you can't turn off. > > RISCV is neat but it's nowhere near the total solution. You can build a very > closed system with RISCV very easily. RISCV doesn't magically take away ME- > and PSP-like problems. > RISC-V doesn't have NDA issues like x86 which the firmware freedom will get benefit of it. And yes, the vendor can build a closed system with RISC-V cu'z RISC-V is not GPL-like license. But it should be much easier to buy( It'd be much harder get the ThreadX/ARC-based stuff from Intel even if you are willing to pay?) the source code/solution from the vendor w/o any NDA restriction. RISC-V is not a magic to bring us the firmware freedom but provide more options.
-- GNU powered it... GPL protect it... God blessing it... regards Shawn -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
