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Suppose it's not everybody's cup of tea, but there are users on this planet who would love to be running a fully free and open source software on machines that provably have no Intel Management Engine or other comparable closed-source technologies.

What the community could be doing instead of refusing useful patches enhancing support for an IP-core licensed from a western company is working with Baikal developers to ensure that desktops/laptops built on their hardware include no closed source software blobs anywhere in the drivers or in EEPROM.

How often do we have an opportunity like this?