[coreboot] building a coreboot (and 100% free software) compatible box

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Thu Feb 7 09:43:30 CET 2013


"Kristóf, Csillag" wrote:
> 1. Absolutely necessary:
> 1.1. It must be able to run 100% free software. No closed BIOS. No binary 
> firmware loaded to any part of the system with meaningful access to my 
> data. (CPU, GPU, network card, etc.)
..
> 1.2. It must have hardware support for AES. (For hw crypto acceleration.)
>
> 1.4. It must have hardware support for virtualization.
..
> 2.3. Modern tech and High CPU performance. Of course :) Whatever is
> available...

1.2, 1.4, and 2.3 are all the same requirement. Unfortunately, that
requirement is in absolute conflict with 1.1.


You lose.


//Peter



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