Debian To Consider Changing How It Treats Closed-Source Firmware

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I'd like to let you know there are newer AMD boards without PSP which are also supported by the opensource coreboot BIOS firmware. I.e.: Lenovo G505S with A10-5750M, ASUS A88XM-E with A10-6800K, ASUS AM1I-A with Athlon 5370. They are from 15h / early 16h generations which didn't have AMD PSP. Although these quad-core CPUs are from 2013-2014, they are still powerful enough for the modern tasks.

When I bought this CPU, I chose it for the highest single-thread performance at 65W TDP that I could get out of AMD, given what was available to me. That said, when I upgrade, I'm likely to just bite the bullet and go for something Zen 4 (since, as I understand it, Zen 4 will introduce a new socket) with DDR 5 RAM (for the mandatory ECC).