Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis

Re:Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis by justin66 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:32AM (#45027981)

x86 PCs need insecure and ordinarily impossible to replace blobs in order to boot. It's true that PC firmware doesn't seem to hurt open source people's feelings quite so much as it once did, but there's not a ton of logic to that.

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Re:Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis by userbinator on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @08:28PM (#45034018)

Coreboot has been around for over a decade.

I'm not taking the "security" bait at all, especially when we're comparing a PC to an even less-explored platform which also requires binary blobs.

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Re:Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis by justin66 on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @09:50AM (#45039660)

Unless things have changed significantly coreboot is an example of what I'm talking about - not a ton of x86 motherboard hardware is supported very well. "But for real openness, nothing beats an older x86 PC" just doesn't seem true at all.

(but I'll look into coreboot. I'd get a kick out of trying it.)

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