[coreboot] Proposal: "Freedom level" field for boards supported by coreboot

[Timothy Pearson]

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On 01/19/2017 05:16 PM, Andrés Domínguez wrote:
> 2017-01-18 23:39 GMT+01:00 Timothy Pearson <tpearson at raptorengineering.com>:
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>> All,
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>> I've been working on a new way to classify boards supported by coreboot
>> based on their freedom level.
> 
> Very good idea.
> 
>> I uploaded the classification criteria to
>> the Wiki here
>>
>> https://www.coreboot.org/Board_freedom_levels
> 
> There are a few things that I don't like about your categories,
> specially the "scary red Pwned": Don't you think that people reading
> the coreboot web page, will think that the "Pwned" are worse than
> buying any random board not supported by coreboot, with the same
> freedom issues? I would use not colored not named for the last
> category. Gold, Silver and Bronze sound good to me, you could always
> add Platinum and Iridium if more free boards appear and + or - for
> every category that needs subcategories.
> 
> I also agree with Julius about the ARM platforms that have not
> supported GPU or WIFI. For many use cases GPU is not needed, and WIFI
> can be replaced by PCIe or USB one.
> 
> Andrés

No problem.  I'll see about revising the last category some this weekend.

Thank you all for your input!

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Timothy Pearson
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