GNU Boot Drops Some Motherboards & CPU Code After Discovering Non-Free Bits

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU Boot Drops Some Motherboards & CPU Code After Discovering Non-Free Bits

The GNU Boot project has been in the works as a Coreboot/Libreboot fork focused on "freedom respecting boot firmware" that is free from closed-source and proprietary components. But in working towards its inaugural v0.1 release, they discovered that they had inadvertently been shipping some non-free software around AMD CPU microcode updates and some motherboard ports with non-open-source code...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Boot-Drops-Non-Free-Bits

[EspadaV8]

Those microcode patch source files are for Those microcode C files removed are for AMD Family 12

Bit of a doubled up line in the 3rd paragraph

[HEL88]

And just out of curiosity, are there any benefits from this? Is it a gift to North Korea, Russia and China like open source? Russia thanks to this they make war and have cool toys for free, and the Chinese sweep western products from the market.

[Setif]

And just out of curiosity, are there any benefits from this? Is it a gift to North Korea, Russia and China like open source? Russia thanks to this they make war and have cool toys for free, and the Chinese sweep western products from the market.

Open-Source is for all people not just for western people who want to impose their culture and ideology on other people.

[Doomer]

And just out of curiosity, are there any benefits from this?

not a single one, freetardism is about having the morale highground, users be damned, it's not supposed to be used in the first place, it's all about going to fosdem or whatever else con and showing the world how good of a person you are.
if it was really about killing proprietary software freetards would focus nearly exclusively on reverse-engineering these things, they clearly don't and would rather strip features from open source rather than to do what need to be done for their holy crusade against the boogeyman.

Is it a gift to North Korea, Russia and China like open source? Russia thanks to this they make war and have cool toys for free, and the Chinese sweep western products from the market.

anything the public can buy is a "gift" to anyone willing to spend resources to acquire it, it's a dumb pov to have.
gvt with unlimited money don't really care about foss or not, they can replicate/steal these things, it's not rocket or nuclear science, they can and DO it already.
FOSS benefit the west way more than any gvt you were told to hate anyways, enforcing proprietary software only would kill innovation and any company that isn't street-approved by the big boys in charge.

[pabloski]

And just out of curiosity, are there any benefits from this? Is it a gift to North Korea, Russia and China like open source? Russia thanks to this they make war and have cool toys for free, and the Chinese sweep western products from the market.

are you drank or do you really think that the west invented technology alone? Russia and China have massive military-industrial complexes, with a lot of very high advanced tech and weaponry....for example no one has working hypersonic missiles except Russia right now!! and yes they work, although the ukronato propaganda says the opposite ( by showing photos of the wreackage of old soviet missiles )

[torsionbar28]

Y'all need to chill out.

[kuco]

And just out of curiosity, are there any benefits from this? Is it a gift to North Korea, Russia and China like open source? Russia thanks to this they make war and have cool toys for free, and the Chinese sweep western products from the market.

Open-Source is for all people not just for western people who want to impose their culture and ideology on other people.

Both of these quotes are equally braindead.

[Serafean]

And just out of curiosity, are there any benefits from this?

Yes: keeping tabs on what one can/can't do with hardware one buys.

This is akin to the "right to repair" , but for the software world. If a closed component has a problem/is missing a feature, you're helpless to fix it, whereas if you have the source*, you can at least start investigating how to fix it**.

* compiler, deployment method... I know that's not all.
** Then there are the crazy skilled people who reverse engineer all this stuff. Thanks to those people we initially had most drivers. Now some vendors upstream.

[Vistaus]

are you drank or do you really think that the west invented technology alone? Russia and China have massive military-industrial complexes, with a lot of very high advanced tech and weaponry....for example no one has working hypersonic missiles except Russia right now!! and yes they work, although the ukronato propaganda says the opposite ( by showing photos of the wreackage of old soviet missiles )

Sometimes people think China only copies us and Russia is a bad guy, but forget that we owe a lot to them as well. For example, here in the Netherlands we have tableware called Delfts blauw, which we copied from China a few centuries ago because shipping via boat cost too much. And fireworks, used everywhere in the world? Chinese invention. Just to name a few things. And Russia has helped a great deal in modern medicine, science and military, just to name a few things.

Yes, they do bad stuff too and deserve to be called out for that, but we also have things to be thankful for.