tpearson-raptor

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by tpearson-raptor 6y ago
Nothing formal, but if the service itself does go down (i.e. your VPS drops and can't be restarted due to a service problem, or connectivity fails, etc.) refunds / service credits would be issued. We really haven't encounter
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by tpearson-raptor 6y ago
Timothy Pearson from Raptor here...so if storage becomes a main concern it definitely becomes less expensive to lease a dedicated box vs. a VPS from Integricloud, and that's by design to some extent. The Integricloud architecture is c
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
Anyone wanting control of a powerful modern computer is part of the target market. We just haven't been able to drive the price down further at this time -- doing hardware design around fully open source firmware is hard and a lot o
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
Keep an eye out for an EU distributor of ours -- probably sometime late this month / early next if all goes well...
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised -- it's a gaping hole for anticheat software if not addressed. In fact, long term the anticheat is going to have to require a completely locked-down (console-like) experience from boot firmware (ME/PS
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
> Provide a path to a $1300 laptop that is POWER based (and not crippled "slow 1 core SMT1" stuff from IBM's dead-bin) and you might entice System76 and Purism. I just gave them a path to a desktop that is POWER based, wit
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
I wouldn't be here if I didn't see a bunch of headlines yesterday that made it sound like these new laptops have proper open firmware. They don't. That's why I'm here, to provide the missing other half of the story
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
The general answer is yes and yes. That's why OMI / OpenCAPI are being released as standards, with RTL / HDL. I think at this point there would be more appetite for a next gen interface like DDR5 vs. DDR4 to be released, bu
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
Microwatt is the first fully open POWER core: https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt It's also structured very well, quite clean for learning purposes etc. The current goal so far as I know is to perfect thi
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
OK, I think I may have been misunderstood... What they are doing in that space is valuable. However, with just a bit more tweaking, they could offer something a whole lot more valuable in parallel, and leave this whole semi-open x86 issu
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
You might be ascribing quite a bit more leverage to System76 than they actually have here. No one is going to get Intel or AMD to allow open PSP/ME firmware -- AIUI even Google, with the truckloads of chips they buy, isn't able t
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
Actually, yes! We're closely monitoring the development progress of the open toolchains for various FPGAs; with POWER ISA now being open for implementation by anyone anywhere, I could easily see a future where extremely sensitive work
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
Yep, I figured as much. We'd love to do a laptop, we're literally just stalled on the GPU. This is where a consortium of ODMs and OEMs could possibly effect change, the combined buying power is probably enough to get custom GPU
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
That may be. However, I was using Linux on bog-standard computers before System76 was even founded -- preinstalling Linux on a computer isn't exactly revolutionary, and it's in a completely different league from the work that has
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
I still don't understand why you would even care about the firmware if you're running Windows. To me, that would be like building a fortified, ultra-secure rear doorway into a run down barn with a gaping hole where the front door
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
Watch out for the LX2160A -- if you intend to use certain items, like any of the onboard high speed networking, you have to load blobs. This was one reason we decided (after careful consideration, which included bringing a box up and worki
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
Which, it should be noted, is impossible due to Intel's hardware-enforced signature checks. Even if a key were to be stolen from Intel it would then be illegal to use in all Western nations. The ME is off limits to everyone other than
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
It was that strongly worded because I've been fighting the "neutralized" rumor ever since it was started (presumably to try to save x86 market share among security conscious people, given its origin). I'm tired of doing
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
That depends heavily on where you're transmitting (i.e what frequency and bandwidth you use) along with the power you're transmitting at. First, as a ham radio operator, no, you can't just go and start blasting away from an S
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
I hadn't, thanks for the link! It's an interesting possibility for a terminal device, though I'd prefer something open ISA -- if that was either POWER or RISC-V vs. ARM, I'd probably pick one up...
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
OK, that makes sense. And yes, it causes problems for coreboot -- AIUI there are no modern AMD systems supported, because AMD has not allowed use of the AGESA blob in that way.
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
To the downvoters: I'm guessing you wanted to run Windows 10 "safely" somehow, or sandbox your games. There's almost no other reason to be this stuck on x86; at the end of the day it's just a consumer architecture
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
The ancient AGESA open sourced well over a decade ago, then closed down a few years later right about when the PSP started to appear on AMD platforms? Or do you mean the modern AGESA binary that has zero support whatsoever in coreboot right
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
IANAL, but this is what I've been told: Both. Copyright applies to some aspects, patents to others, and then you also get into trademark rights. With the US having embraced effectively permanent copyright, ISAs will not be freely abl
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
Honest question: why do you consider System76 to be building new roads by using locked hardware and offering partial open source firmware for it? Wouldn't the new roads kudos be more appropriately given to all of the folks that made r
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
Here's POWER's training code for DDR4: https://git.raptorcs.com/git/talos-hostboot/tree/src/import/... pgeorgi has a valid point in that if you go for the cheapest off the shelf building b
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
I was being snarky in this particular post. Normally I don't do that, but I kinda got tired of saying the same thing over and over and tried something new. Didn't mean to offend, only challenge.
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
I run Debian Buster.
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
My best recommendation might be a bit odd, but here goes... Can you put a POWER "base station" of sorts in your dorm / apartment and use a low power secure terminal, like a corebooted C201, to access it over an encrypted link
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by tpearson-raptor 7y ago
I've actually given up on using laptops for now. I still have an old x201 and t400 but they don't get out much due to the Intel silicon vulnerabilities. Nothing I do with secure data hard-requires that level of portability, and f

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