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Hey, bravo for replying and all, but your time is valuable. Please don't feel obligated to play whackamole here, unless you enjoy it :) The skeptic posts will
by KirillPanov 5y ago
Hey, bravo for replying and all, but your time is valuable. Please don't feel obligated to play whackamole here, unless you enjoy it :)
The skeptic posts will keep appearing (heck I myself wrote one months ago) until people can boot something low-performance with keyboard, unaccelerated framebuffer, network, and internal storage, and trust that it won't corrupt filesystems. We all know you're working on that. It will shut up the skeptics, and it's the only thing that will do that.
That said, at some point a fully 100% comprehensive inventory of all these "onboard coprocessors running Apple firmware" (that we can't reprogram or recompile the firmware for) is going to be needed. And a clear, coherent argument for each of them individually, explaining why it isn't a bugdoor risk. I'm sure most of those answers will be elaborations on "because IOMMU". But for the DRAM controller the story will be much more nuanced.
I'll buy an M1 someday, and it will beat the pants off my RK3399, but I doubt I'll ever trust it to the same degree.