On 09/03/2017 09:41 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote:
Do you believe that all ARM, SPARC and Power suppliers do not put anything
in their CPUs that users and developers do not know about? Again, the only
way to be sure is buying hardware from a vendor that produces it's own
hardware, CPUs included, openly releasing their full specifications,
blue-prints and software. Do you know any?
TALOS 2 is actually libre, both the firmware and the hardware - IBM has
released full specs for POWER9.
ME/PSP is integral to the modern x86 boot process, it simply can't be
disabled - maybe with years of research and millions in reverse
engineering but that would be silly.
I don't like them because they could have picked a mobile platform that
could actually be freed in real life (not just wishful thinking) such as
AMD FT3 (cpu on the lenovo G505S) or AppliedMicro performance ARM,
without doing that they take away resources from legitimate projects -
when they first started up the community told them this but they refused
to listen and kept insisting they could "free" ME (and backport it to
the many laptops they have released? I doubt it)
As it stands they are selling an overpriced whitebox laptop and
confusing users with the "librem" name and quotes from stallman, they
lack the hardware engineering department to tell them what can and can't
be reasonably done.
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