Will the new APUs/GPUs support a fully libre firmware

[Laughing1]

No plans for libre firmware, although I should point out that none of our competitors provide it either. We are still keeping an eye open for opportunities to deliver firmware in HW like Intel (mostly) does, but nobody ships open GPU firmware today. As long as WHQL certification requires robust DRM I don't see that changing, unfortunately.

The perverse thing is that libre distros enthusiastically support HW vendors who deliver closed source firmware in ROM but not HW vendors who deliver the same closed source firmware in files. I guess if they didn't support HW vendors who deliver closed source firmware in ROM they wouldn't be able to run on any hardware.

Could you do one firmware for Linux and another for Windows, etc? Just load it at boot?

[bridgman]

No plans for libre firmware, although I should point out that none of our competitors provide it either. We are still keeping an eye open for opportunities to deliver firmware in HW like Intel (mostly) does, but nobody ships open GPU firmware today. As long as WHQL certification requires robust DRM I don't see that changing, unfortunately.

The perverse thing is that libre distros enthusiastically support HW vendors who deliver closed source firmware in ROM but not HW vendors who deliver the same closed source firmware in files. I guess if they didn't support HW vendors who deliver closed source firmware in ROM they wouldn't be able to run on any hardware.

[Laughing1]

bridgman

[Laughing1]

So I can boot Guix?