Re: Guix on the MNT/Reform

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

Hello all; regarding dystopian direction;

Christine Lemmer-Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
> The modularity of the Reform design is the most hope I have for a FOSS
> future on the otherwise largely dystopian direction of hardware lately.
> Hopefully we will get better and better options over time for the SoCs
> too.

I guess DDR4 RAM suffers from board-specific cross-talk and that is the
main reason for free software support getting worse.  Maybe firmware is
made with proprietary board information to avoid cross-talk.  Maybe free
firmware could be made with time-intensive testing of the particular
board, each time the firmware is built.  Maybe instead of the real
board, a virtual board “digital twin” could be used for training, which
would be free software if the virtual board would only coarsely resemble
the real non-free board.

Maybe USB3 has similar cross-talk?

But anyway, I guess the present is not really worse than the older,
slower, flaky boards with full U-Boot free software support.

Regards,
Florian