yeah. that's the least worse. but still much worse than even x86, which is already questionable but accepted as ok.
nothing on that SoC is free or open.
btw, misleading everyone by running the blobs in a separate core with the same accesses of the main ones just to brute force certification is even worse than admitting you couldn't get free of the blobs, like the pine phone people correctly did.
> You can use a firewall on GNU/Linux phones though.
And that's true. There are phones, that run GNU/Linux distros, that give you a working software firewall. Pointing at blobs doesn't make it not GNU/Linux on a phone with a firewall. At best it points to a place where a firewall could be undermined, but if that's your standard then (nearly?) everything fails, including actual literal firewall hardware appliances (I'd take Linux nftables on a blobbed network card over Cisco any day).
Same access to most of the buses. unless you keep all your secrets in one core registers and maybe local caches. anyway, I wouldn't know. nothing from those cores is open besides the ARM abi it is built based on.
nothing on that SoC is free or open.
btw, misleading everyone by running the blobs in a separate core with the same accesses of the main ones just to brute force certification is even worse than admitting you couldn't get free of the blobs, like the pine phone people correctly did.