----- Original Message -----
> From: "ron minnich" <rminn...@gmail.com>
> To: "Timothy Pearson" <tpear...@raptorengineering.com>
> Cc: "Patrick Georgi" <pgeo...@google.com>, "David Hendricks"
> <david.hendri...@gmail.com>, "coreboot"
> <coreboot@coreboot.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 2, 2019 2:56:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] Re: Web site revamp
>> What about following proposal:
>> coreboot is an extended firmware platform that delivers a lightning
>> fast and secure boot experience on modern computers and embedded
>> systems. As an Open Source project it aims to provide auditability and
>> maximum control over technology; On some platforms (especially
>> non-open ISA platforms), some boot functionalities are provided by
>> Silicon Vendor binary blobs.
>
> This is too wordy and full of jargon, and confuses goals.
>
> it was never about the speed. The speed was a nice side effect, but ti
> was really about the openness. Once you start talking about speed you
> lose the thread -- we had this problem all the time in 2000: vendors
> got focused on fast and missed the main point, that we wanted control.
>
> Remember that many people come to coreboot thinking they're going to
> load a usb stick up and install it somehow. Few people have any clue
> what's going on here.
>
> You need fewer adjectives, and simpler words.
>
> ron
Apologies, but I'm a bit confused -- just a bit earlier it sounded like the
open / control aspects were now secondary to market share and vendor
contribution concerns. Did I pick up the wrong impression?
If coreboot is indeed supposed to be focusing on those two attributes, this
text needs to be completely rewritten to clearly show where the limits are on
modern x86 platforms. No more molly-coddling the ME/PSP, it needs to be very
clear where coreboot is locked out by vendor dictate and (as a result) what
coreboot cannot fix without a change of direction from the silicon vendors.
"coreboot is an open firmware platform with its primary goal as a fully owner
controlled, secure boot experience. For open ISA and other owner controlled
systems, it currently provides an auditable, secure boot environment for
silicon vendors, large organizations, and individual developers. For
restricted systems, such as modern x86 platforms, it provides a compatible end
stage loader and firmware module framework for proprietary vendor binaries.".
This might be a bit strongly worded, but you can see where I'm trying to go
with it?
--
Timothy Pearson
Raptor Engineering, LLC
https://www.raptorengineering.com
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