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by Xylemon 4005 days ago
I also hear they want to start doing binary blobs and ditch their open source drivers. Yay!
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This isn't really new, the difference is the binary blob is being at runtime instead of being part of your UEFI image or whatever, Intel have surely had "binary blobs" before, possibly in some write only memory too.