Laurie, thanks for the invite. If ever a single statement crystallized the
problem, this is it:
"Intel® FSP is an ingredient to a full system firmware solution and
incorporates multiple bootloaders including coreboot."

That's the problem: " incorporates multiple bootloaders including
coreboot". With all due respect, this statement displays a lack of
understanding of coreboot. coreboot is not a bootloader. Intel keeps
wanting to box it in to that role, but that's not what coreboot is or ever
was.

coreboot incorporates FSP. FSP provides a support library to coreboot. On
Intel, that is. The FSP model is not a desirable solution on other open
platforms, particularly ARM, and hence is a point solution for Intel only.

What you are seeing in this discussion is our disappointment in Intel's
continuing push to maximize what FSP does, and to minimize what open source
code such as coreboot does -- and, further, to Intel's unwillingness to
listen.

Even on AMD, the trend (see: 0xide) is to have a full open source stack on
the AP. FSP as a model is better than UEFI, but not anywhere near what many
Intel customers would like to see. Hence the open letter; hence our
disappointment that it seems to have had zero impact on Intel's behavior;
hence many companies continuing search for alternatives to Intel products.

I had hopes, with the new CEO in charge, and the statement that Intel was
going to change, that Intel would in fact change; now I have only
disappointments. At the same time, I'm not at all surprised that nothing
has changed. I've been down this road with Intel many times in the last 23
years.

Also, note: from 1999-2005, we had 100% GPL firmware for Intel CPUs, in
coreboot (back then, called LinuxBIOS). Why is that not the case today?
Because Intel would not allow it.

Thanks

ron

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 10:01 AM Arthur Heymans <art...@aheymans.xyz> wrote:

> Hi Laurie
>
> I created a github issue about this
> https://github.com/UniversalScalableFirmware/documentation/issues/37
> almost 11 months ago with no reply.
> I also don't see any discussions about FSP-I in particular in that
> community but I posted my github issue again on that mailing list.
>
> Arthur
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 6:45 PM Jarlstrom, Laurie <
> laurie.jarlst...@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to invite you to the Universal Scalable Firmware (USF)
>> Community where Intel® FSP is an ingredient to a full system firmware
>> solution and incorporates multiple bootloaders including coreboot.
>>
>> There have been discussions on the updates to Intel® FSP within this
>> community
>>
>> https://universalscalablefirmware.groups.io/g/discussion
>>
>>
>>
>> What is USF?  Links to  USF training videos:
>> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLehYIRQs6PR5N73cbW8CPvU_stDTAG_j5
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> *Laurie*
>>
>>
>>
>> laurie.jarlst...@intel.com,
>>
>> System Firmware Products
>>
>> Firmware Ecosystem & Business Dev.
>>
>> (503) 880 5648 Mobile
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Friday, September 30, 2022 9:00 AM
>> *To:* Nico Huber <nic...@gmx.de>
>> *Cc:* Arthur Heymans <art...@aheymans.xyz>; coreboot <
>> coreboot@coreboot.org>
>> *Subject:* [coreboot] Re: FSP 2.4: runtime blobs!
>>
>>
>>
>>  note that I am having this exact same problem in the RISC-V community:
>> https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc/issues/102
>>
>>
>>
>> People just like their SMM. It's hard to kill.
>>
>>
>>
>> I fear that you're not going to get much luck with Intel, which is why I
>> try to work with non-Intel CPUs as much as I can nowadays.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 5:58 AM Nico Huber <nic...@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Arthur, coreboot fellows,
>>
>> On 30.09.22 13:53, Arthur Heymans wrote:
>> > What are your thoughts?
>>
>> printing, bonfire...
>>
>> > Do we take a stance against FSP-I integration in coreboot?
>>
>> I think we already do. From coreboot.org:
>>
>>   "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 provides auditability and
>>    maximum control over technology."
>>
>> FSP-I means exactly the opposite of most of the above points. It's
>> inherently incompatible.
>>
>> IMO, unless we discuss if we want to change how we define coreboot
>> first, there can't be a discussion about integrating FSP-I nor any
>> action in that direction.
>>
>> > Are there precedents where blobs runtimes are installed on the main CPU,
>> > that I don't know of which could justify FSP-I?
>>
>> There's something for the main CPU but definitely not the same: I was
>> told AMD's binary pi can provide runtime ACPI code. But running ACPI is
>> an opt-in for the OS, whilst FSP-I wouldn't even allow an opt-out, I
>> guess.
>>
>> >
>> > P.S. It's quite sad to see this happen after an open letter 361 people
>> > signed for a more open FSP.
>> >
>> https://openletter.earth/adopting-open-source-firmware-approach-for-intel-fsp-59d7a0c6
>>
>> Sad, but not unexpected. I believe this is part of a more than a
>> decade old strategy. It seems to me Intel never really supported
>> open-source OS drivers for their server platforms. They just hid
>> everything in SMM with a nice open-source facade for Linux. We
>> turned a blind eye to that. Now it seems that the ecosystem around
>> Intel servers is rather unprepared for open source. Even if they'd
>> open up their SMM code, it would just be wrong to keep the code in
>> SMM, IMO. Proper OS drivers should be written instead.
>>
>> Nico
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