[Arm-netbook] AMD considering releasing the PSP

[Bill Kontos]

I've been looking into the communitie's reaction to that comment about the
PSP firmware, and it seems like people are all over the place in regards to
what they want. Some people want a well defined ABI so coreboot can work
with it, some people want a way to disable it so it doesn't even boot, some
want full cooperation with libreboot, which given the behavior of Leah Rowe
recently with the FSF I think it's safe to say that it's not going to
happen. Libreboot itself made an announcement here

https://libreboot.org/amd-libre/

asking for a full unconditional release of everything including releasing
the signed keys for loading firmware( that doesn't make any sense, if you
have a system that needs a signed key but the key is public what's the
point ?). The whole announcement looks very rushed out to me( e.g. amd
sales would go through the roof if they released the psp firmware, not
going to happen). So my point is, from all these things the most likely to
happen is amd releasing an ABI for it. It will give them the benefit of
some press coverage and nothing more( like what broadcomm did with "open
sourcing" drivers for the RPi 3 which was just the userland part while the
opengl implementation was still part of a huge binary blob, but they did
get the press coverage they wanted). So don't get your hopes too high on
this.

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Bill Kontos <vkontogpls at gmail.com> wrote:

> We don't need to have full utilization of PSP, just ignoring it at boot
> sequence and not running it at all would be just fine.
>
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <
> lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_crea
>> tors_of_athlon_radeon_and_other/dett0cc/
>>
>> behind the scenes i've asked /u/AMD_James if AMD would like to be part
>> of a collaboration to put a commercially-viable multi-core 64-bit
>> RISC-V processor together, with a view *later* to AMD copying the
>> trick that was used in the Loongson:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Hardware-assisted_x86_emulation
>>
>> l.
>>
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