I don’t really see an alternative. Chips increasingly depend on such firmware and I rather have them accessible and patchable via open means then not supported at all or on non-accessible EPROMS leading to nearly unfixable security issues.
In the end one also has to acknowledge that the entire hardware stack we run Linux on is nearly always proprietary, so I don’t see how some firmware make a big difference.
I don’t really see an alternative. Chips increasingly depend on such firmware and I rather have them accessible and patchable via open means then not supported at all or on non-accessible EPROMS leading to nearly unfixable security issues.
In the end one also has to acknowledge that the entire hardware stack we run Linux on is nearly always proprietary, so I don’t see how some firmware make a big difference.
My problem with software defined silicon is that it allows restricting performance unless you pay Intel.
Then don’t buy Intel chips?
indeed. I’m very encouraged by the recent progress in RISC-V space. Maybe my next machine will be RISC-V.