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[chithanh]

http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endo...s-your-freedom

[chithanh]

Not in the same market as EPYC....

[chithanh]

wodencafe
That AMD thinks that a 3rd party security audit is somehow an adequate substitute to open source PSP code is indeed unfortunate.
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[chithanh]

More, sure. Better, depends on your perspective.
UEFI is a horribly complex specification, the current version is 2,000+ pages long iirc. The reference...

[chithanh]

The firmware controlling the HDD is actually of minor concern. You do not need to trust it, but just treat the HDD as black box that you write bytes to...

[chithanh]

Lower capacity SSDs are usually slower in write performance, because the flash controller writes to fewer flash chips simultaneously.

Samsung...

[chithanh]

Be aware that price does not linearly increase with performance. If you compare the price of similarly performing products you will get a better picture...

[chithanh]

Using Cinebench R15 as a measure of performance as in the video, we get

AMD 1950X: $999, 3062 points, 3.065 points/$
AMD 1920X: $799,...

[chithanh]

Why would it be illegal? Artificially gimping cheap products for market segmentation is pretty commonplace....

[chithanh]

Yes, I read the license. GPL-2 gives you freedom 1 in clause 2.

The only thing that GPL-2 forbids you in relation to modification is removing...

[chithanh]

What exactly needs to be fixed? Everything works as it should, at least with ASRock AM4 mobos.

Note that the new Linux MCE handler can stil...

[chithanh]

Then you have an open source graphics driver, but what about all the other special drivers, like SoC/platform and camera?

[chithanh]

...or like Eric Anholt (vc4)

I expect once he got some basic functionality working, the project will attract more contributors. Unless of...

[chithanh]

Wilfred
I know about the hardwarecanucks article. The author erroneously claims that the operating system needs to shut down when an uncorrectable...

[chithanh]

No, that is what iirc Gigabyte says (support ECC memory in non-ECC mode).

ECC on ASRock AM4 mobos works, you can configure ECC related settings...

[chithanh]

If what you say is true, then the cognitive dissonance in Fedora is worse than I thought.

The saying goes that you are entitled to your own...

[chithanh]

The AMD Workstation/HEDT chip is called Threadripper and will launch soon™. It will also have official ECC support from AMD. However, quantities are...

[chithanh]

All Ryzen CPUs support ECC. It depends on the mobo manufacturer to implement it, so far only ASRock and Biostar officially support ECC.

[chithanh]

Fedora ships the entire linux-firmware tree full of proprietary software. They even say in their guidelines that firmware licenses forbidding reverse...

[chithanh]

Michael

So did you also try to run Linux on the Mac to see whether DisplayPort alternate mode works? Preferably a kernel that has the USB...