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An this is why I'm trying very hard to get coreboot to work on my systems, and I'm very eager to see Libreboot-type of FSP/BSP-free images in the future so we c

An this is why I'm trying very hard to get coreboot to work on my systems, and I'm very eager to see Libreboot-type of FSP/BSP-free images in the future so we can actually verify our boot chain. Keeping all of the firmware code secret makes no sense, and seems to be artificially enforced by 'patents', and 'trade secrets' while most likely the vendors are trying to keep buggy code secret and hope that obscurity alone will keep them safe.

minipci1321 9y ago
In my opinion, vendors are oblivious to the notion of the buggy code. From the releasing-a-product standpoint, there is a tested or an untested code. While personally I wouldn't be surprised that someone could knowingly release firmware containing known "stability issues", I doubt any vendor hides source code out of fear that someone else will discover some hypothetical bugs. Among other problems, finding bugs in an unknown firmawre is not so simple, as it requires an intimate knowledge of the underlying hardware (and a fair share of the bugs is closely related to its quirks), which might be not so familiar as, say, well-established (and relatively well-documented) Intel Architecture.