System76 Is Making Progress On Open-Source Firmware For Their Laptops

[madscientist159]

Has anyone decapped and reverse-engineered a IBM CPU, to verify that it isn't doing weird shit regardless of what its opensource firmware makes people believe?

Really I understand you need to push your product, but that's going too far.

No need to. If you have the resources to verify the CPU, ask IBM for a license to the RTL and floorplans. That should match the actual die 100%.

Unlike Intel, IBM hasn't been caught red handed forcing DRM and vendor locking through hidden, practically undocumented, highly privileged processors. AMD doesn't document their PSP publicly either, while all the IBM SBE (ppe42) documentation is open...