[Arm-netbook] AMD considering releasing the PSP

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Bill Kontos <vkontogpls at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> ?).

 exactly: the point is, they should never have added secret-key
firmware signing into the hardware in the first place.  *that's* the
point.

> press coverage they wanted). So don't get your hopes too high on this.

 yep.  which is why i'm recommending they go "clean slate" and go with
RISC-V with x86 part-acceleration.  i looked at the numbers from a
2015 paper on the FP implementation in rocket: it's a whopping 40%
more power-efficient for the same performance.

l.