On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:35 PM Frank Beuth <secli...@boxdan.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 04:22:05AM +0000, Paul Swanson wrote: > >Are there particular problems that could benefit from new > >ideas or solutions? > > An area that I am personally interested in is running OpenBSD on fully > open-source / binary-blob-free hardware: hardware where there is no > proprietary > firmware that could hide vendor backdoors, and ideally where even the > design of > the chip is available to the user for review. > > The trouble is it's VERY hard to find "fully open" hardware, and the > hardware > which is known to exist (loongson, OpenPOWER, RISC V) is difficult to get, > expensive or not very good, and (except for loongson) not supported by > OpenBSD. Might be time to learn FPGAs! :-)
