On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 05:19:22PM -0500, Jamey Fletcher wrote: > > I'd prefer to see chips from scratch, rather than patching on features > > late in the game. We can be pretty sure chip makers will only patch > > problems as they are found instead of redesigning their chips to prevent > > future problems. > > The problem with doing that is you find yourself facing all new bugs never > before seen. As well as having to characterize the new chips from the > ground up to get best results. > > > My reaction to the situation is that I'll no longer buy new hardware at > > all. Everything I buy now is second user, until I see chip makers pulling > > their finger out and doing what really needs doing. > > > On top of that I'll only buy hardware that can be free software down to > > the bios. It should be nothing to them what runs in the bios, so I'll wait > > and see if they can be more flexible there (for however long it takes). > > Need to go for a lot deeper than the "bios". Modern processors have at > least another layer under that, either on the CPU or in the chipset.
Ideally, the bottom layer should be such that rewriting it won't brick the processor -- at least you should aways be able to rewrite it again. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
