(2/2) In general, your biggest concern with ARM is the GPU drivers. Mali is fucked. PowerVR too. Vivante GC and Qualcomm Ardreno are fine. Broadcom VideoCore is partial. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_device_driver#ARM MALI MIGHT BE GETTING OPENED UP PRAISE LINUX TORVALDS TECH TIPS lwn.net/Articles/738225/ Some anons have reported that lighter environments like XFCE are usable on stuff like Mali without the driver, but it's not ideal. One user said he couldn't remove the ChromeOS on his libreboot C201. This github issue talks about a solution. github.com/altreact/archbk/issues/3
OpenPOWER: Raptor Engineering sells POWER9 workstations, that may soon be getting RYF certification. They're expensive as fuck, but probably the most powerful non-botnet computers that exist. Comparable to Xeons/Epyc. raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
I suppose I should explain the title on this one. You'll probably notice the mention of Cavium in the ARM section. They have a fucking insanely good-looking processor called the ThunderX It has 2.5GHz clockspeed and anywhere from 8 to 48 fucking cores! But we couldn't find any implementations of it in these threads.
Then one day I was watching Bryan Lunduke, and saw that he was shilling PogoLinux. So I went to their site, and saw that they have two rackmounts that have two 48-core Caviums! It's fucking amazing, but I needed to know what the status was on their firmware. I contacted them yesterday essentially asking them whether their firmware was open.
Now we wait...
Jacob Price
Please reply. Someone?
I feel lonely...
Aaron Rodriguez
I appreciate the hard work you have done in creating this general, OP.
How many conventional desktop motherboards can be corebooted?
Good man. As well as freedom, does coreboot provide the same bootup speed improvements that libreboot provides?
Ethan Peterson
As far as I know it should.
Nathan Sullivan
Should be the same, right? Since Libreboot is the same codebase as Coreboot but with binary blobs removed?
Justin Hughes
Yep!
Luke Miller
Status update on Purism. Here's their freedom roadmap now.
Robert Sanchez
And it's gonna be interesting to see future developments here.
Asher Allen
will they really make the phone with completely free drivers? will buy to replace my almost 6 year old android phone if this is real.
Bentley Mitchell
I believe so. It sounds like it's as free as you can possibly get with a phone. The GPU driver is a Vivante, so there should be no issue there. Not sure on wifi, but their laptops come with GNU/Linux-friendly chipsets for that, so I'd imagine the phone would as well.
Easton Edwards
They're also going for Stallman-approved on their distro they ship with.
Jordan Jackson
And that distro is a Rolling-Release based on Debian, with GNOME3 + Wayland
Hudson Wilson
Should be interesting to see if they can really get RYF for a phone. As I understand, it's impossible to make a phone without a proprietary baseband firmware. Maybe if it's not flashable, the FSF will be okay with it?
Isaiah Diaz
Would be kinda crazy to see the phone get RYF before the laptops. It could totally happen too!
Thomas Foster
> trump posting Shame on you
Ian Garcia
is there any botnet on the new ryzen CPUs 1200-1800 range?
so what the fuck can you do to protect yourself now
Elijah Davis
1. Read the massive list in the OP and second post 2. pick a thing 3. ??? 4. RIP botnet
Noah Campbell
Also, if you're looking for something with high performance, there's used AMD server boards in the x86 section (pre-PSP) that can be librebooted, the OpenPOWER TALOS II, which is probably the most powerful thing on the list, and possibly the PogoLinux ARM stuff if they ever get back to me.
Jace Williams
>some very nice opterons What's the advantage to Opterons versus say, the Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L with a Xeon chip?
John Ortiz
It's not a Xeon board? Everything i've ever seen about it says C2D and C2Q.
Wyatt Jones
There's an adapter to put LGA-771 CPUs in LGA-775 sockets.
Dominic Cox
Interesting. didn't know that.
Gavin Sanders
>being triggered by a picture of the President
You have no room to talk.
Dominic Johnson
I support this general
Aiden Torres
esperanto.ai/ Apparently they want to manufacture open RISC-V chips. We need to do some research in their background though.
Jayden Roberts
Thanks, user! That makes me happy!
I'm not too sure about this one. It seems very centered around business purchases and stuff, to the point that they don't even give you an idea of what their chips are like until you "Describe your company and application needs". Or maybe that's just because the project is early into development? I dunno
So is there anything we're missing here? We've got the librebootys, the giant section dedicated to ARM options, the TALOS II, the NXP PowerPC stuff, the chink MIPS stuff, and some RISC-V SBCs.
Joseph Lewis
>So is there anything we're missing here? Perhaps a list of valid reasons as to why one would want to choose a libre-lifestyle in regards to their tech freedom, as some might question the use of near-decade old Thinkpads that are 100% free versus a modern non-free computer. >I say this as a supporter of the general.
Bentley Moore
Good idea. I think one thing I will DEFINITELY need to include is the stuff about AMD, because I've seen brainlets who hear about the Intel ME and are like "lel I got ryzen I dont have this problem".
I put the VIA and Zhaoxin stuff at the end of the x86 section and just kinda forgot about it. I think it would make sense to look into those as a next step, aside from the aforementioned explanation.
Chase Reed
>"lel I got ryzen I dont have this problem". One certainly can be tricked into thinking AMD is some sort of freedom alternative to Intel but that is of course not the case. Choosing modern AMD CPUs, at best, would be an anti-Intel monopoly choice but that's irrelevant to free software.
David Lopez
That's part of why I wanted to highlight VIA and Zhaoxin. I can't imagine that these tiny niche companies are also in on the CIAnigger conspiracy. However, we need to do more digging to find out about stuff like their firmware, their history, more info in general, etc before I actually put the URL in the list.
Cameron Taylor
Also, I just finished the explanation. It will be featured in the next thread.
William Reed
And PogoLinux hasn't gotten back to me yet.
Blake Richardson
Good stuff OP-senpai.
Jacob Gutierrez
I don't care about freedom and privacy bullshit. I just want to know what exactly my device is doing. It's my PC and only I can decide what it should do, not some faggots I don't even know. It bothers me to no end.
Ian Brown
Good reason. I wrote the new explanation post mainly from a privacy perspective because I feel like that would connect most strongly with more people, but if you have a different reason, that's cool too!
My college semester is ending soon, so I will soon have more time to dedicate to this list project and whatnot.
Evan Clark
I'm grateful for this general OP, thank you and bless Akari
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Brayden Smith
Any word of X220s Libreboot? Wasn't it slated for sometime this year?
Lucas Gomez
Even more projects from retrobrew computers. retrobrewcomputers.org/doku.php -variety of EBC, S-100, and ISA boards and SBCs
Yeah i'm not sure on the Novena. it's apparently still available, but we've already got the EOMA68 in there, and it's actively shooting for RYF.
I think as stated above, our next thing to do is probably to make a return to Chink land and check out Zhaoxin Semiconductor stuff. It's x86 that has no relation to Intel or AMD.
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Connor Cooper
Yeah by the end of December. I don't see that happening. Apparently according to some user in an older thread, they might still be working on it. When I took a peek into their notabug, I saw references to Core2Quad on the T500/W-series.
Brandon James
OOOOWOOOO whats this? >LibreCMC >Going for RYF Added! Thank you so much!
I'm gonna be a bit busy for a while. When I get back, I'll start investigating more stuff.
Nathaniel Powell
What is there in the way of modern laptops? Is the PowerPC notebook actually likely to succeed? TALOS II will satisfy my desktop needs but I can't exactly use it on a train.
