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Boycott AMD, and obviously Intel [0]. Doesn’t really leave a lot of options. [0] https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel
by Semaphor 7y ago
Boycott AMD, and obviously Intel [0]. Doesn’t really leave a lot of options.
[0] https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel
- exrook 7y agoWell there is POWER[0], not that it's a very affordable choice, the cheapest motherboard + cpu costing $1,732.07 [0]https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoIs ARM an option? I know in practice many ARM systems rely on blobs, but it's not clear to me that that's universal.
- q92z8oeif 7y agoThere is nothing like "ARM" in the market. There is CPU/SoC X by Y, built on top of a license from ARM. So you would have to boycott N companies instead of just AMD & Intel :( And even more so, since all their customers are EOM that are happy to sign NDAs.
- CameronNemo 7y agoDecent blob scarce arm option: https://libre.computer/ https://libre.computer/
- als0 7y agoThere are ARM systems that don't need blobs. Whether they are useful to you is a different question. An example is the iMX line from NXP.
- temptemptemp111 6y agoIt isn't really how it works. For most consumers, we can wait a bit longer to buy anything. They want to sell stuff more often... We become more vocal about what would get our $.