AMD, ECC and Purism

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@nicole.faerber

It does not help anything or anyone except to keep the FSF endorsement for the OS.

@nicole.faerber

The blob is still a blob and even worse, it gets taken out of the control of $average user since it is hidden in some hardware subsystem. This is neither helping to liberate anything nor does it help to make anything more secure. Quite the contrary is the case. You artificially limit users’ control over the firmware and you also limit the users’ (and OS for that matter) ability to apply additional security features to the firmware - like signing it with your own key or least creating your own checksums etc.

Exactly this. Other notable people say the same regarding Coreboot microcode: RYF can, and should, be improved.