Comment by monocasa
7 years ago
I mean, following that logic x86 is open because Coreboot exists. Or all of ARM and MIPS is open because YABOOT and U-BOOT are opensource.
You can get the HDL for both those archs if you join the right orgs too. No, open source means more than having 'open' in your pproject name.
Coreboot requires Intel/AMB blobs, you can disable most of the ME, but it's still binary-blobbed to hell. Also none of that is done by Intel/AMD.
OpenPower has the entire firmware Apache licensed, see the link I gave. that's WAY more than any Intel/AMD CPU. Even all the secure-boot stuff is open(Apache Licensed).
Joining the OpenPower Foundation is free for < 300 employee companies, academics and individuals. see the membership kit: https://openpowerfoundation.org/membership/how-to-join/
If you had read any of the links I gave you would have seen all of this for yourself. I provided proof. Please provide proof of your claims :)
Is it perfect, of course not. I never claimed it was, but it's WAY more open than anything else out there, except perhaps RISC-V.. except I don't believe any of the hardware for RISC-V is open at all, and none of the hardware that I'm aware of is yet able to compete with x86.. YET.