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Coreboot was a great project for it’s time. But if you want free hardware you need to build it yourself. As in from the RTL up to the keyboard.
by threshold 5y ago
Coreboot was a great project for it’s time. But if you want free hardware you need to build it yourself. As in from the RTL up to the keyboard.
- the_only_law 5y ago> But if you want free hardware you need to build it yourself. As in from the RTL up to the keyboard. As unrealistic as it would be it would be an incredibly fun project if you could stick to it Not sure how it’s licensed, but I can’t help but the think of Niklaus Wirth and Oberon.
- j7ake 5y agoI guess people differ in the definition of “fun”.
- kook_throwaway 5y agoThere is an online course called nand2tetris where you build a whole computer from nand gate level (CPU, ram, ROM, memory-mapped display output, keyboard scanning, etc), write your own assembler and high level language, then program it to play tetris. It is, bar none, the most fun online course I've ever taken. https://www.nand2tetris.org/ https://www.nand2tetris.org/
- threshold 5y agoIf you want to be pragmatic there are FPGA boards and the SiFive Unmatched. Both are slow and require a degree of trust. But they might make a small home server. Of course just because it’s open/free doesn’t mean it’s more secure.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoYes. So was free software. The idea that a worldwide community can build their own trustworthy software is amazing but it was subverted by hardware manufacturers and their backdoors and restrictions. We'll never be free until it's as easy to manufacture our own hardware at home as it is to write our own software.