[messe]

> Actually if you read the comments from the developers in that thread they won't support it until there is documentation on the firmware "blobs" you need to have in order to even boot.

How exactly is that different to an undocumented or—forbid it—an unflashable BIOS? Don't even get me started on EFI...

Aside from coreboot, I don't really see anybody drawing the ideological-line-in-the-sand there when it comes to running their PC.

[Bluerise]

The difference is that the rPi blobs actually run on the GPU, the CPU is unharmed.

Still, both have access to the same memory. But that's a similar issue on the PC.

[messe]

Well perhaps a better example might be System Management Mode on Intel CPUs, which easily allows for undetectable backdoors with constant access to the same physical memory as anything else running on the CPU.