Nikolaj Schlej made a comment on the recent Snowden/AMD thread. The comment is on Twitter, so it is in multiple messages. I hope that AMD proves him wrong, AMD can change course, so can Intel, if they choose.
Haven't tweeted in a while, but can't skip the "AMD considers to step towards opensource community" story…
Looks bullshit to me… [1/X]— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) March 3, 2017
At first, AMD already was in a good mood with OSS 2-3 years ago, releasing AGESA sources, supporting coreboot via SAGE eng, etc. [2/X]
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) March 3, 2017
But then f̶i̶r̶e̶ ̶n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶a̶t̶t̶a̶c̶k̶e̶d̶ things start going down, AGESA became a BLOB, SAGE closed, Gizmo boards lost support[3/X]
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) March 3, 2017
Then PSP happened. ARM core with signed closed-source FW got responsible not only for security features, but also for CPU init and MRC [4/X]
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) March 3, 2017
I had horrible experience getting eTrinity (with PSP) APU to work with soldered-down mem, where the previous eKabini (no PSP) was fine [5/X]
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) March 3, 2017
Now AMD guys are "considering" to make steps towards opensource, but the same guys were making numerous steps away last 3 years. [6/X]
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) March 3, 2017
Sorry, guys, but talk is cheap and your deeds are much louder than any of your words. eKabini is the latest semi-trustworthy AMD APU. [7/X]
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) March 3, 2017
If you want to try coreboot on AMD board, try finding Gizmo 2 on FT3 (eKabini), it comes with full schematics: https://t.co/xtXOD77W0v [8/X]
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) March 3, 2017
All newer PSP-containing crap is sadly beyond repair for opensource case, IMO.
This rant is over, sorry if it destroyed some hopes. [9/9]— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) March 3, 2017
