Comments on: DIY Bio, coreboot, and other new frontiers http://ollehost.dk/blog/2009/01/29/diy-bio-coreboot-and-other-new-frontiers/ A human weblog about Web technology and other ephemera Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:22:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: olleolleolle http://ollehost.dk/blog/2009/01/29/diy-bio-coreboot-and-other-new-frontiers/comment-page-1/#comment-155267 olleolleolle Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:50:13 +0000 http://ollehost.dk/blog/?p=551#comment-155267 Wonderful! And horrifying at the same time. Great article, thanks for the link. Wonderful! And horrifying at the same time. Great article, thanks for the link.

]]> By: lekernel http://ollehost.dk/blog/2009/01/29/diy-bio-coreboot-and-other-new-frontiers/comment-page-1/#comment-155266 lekernel Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:19:08 +0000 http://ollehost.dk/blog/?p=551#comment-155266 "The last piece of the computer puzzle to become free" ? Not exactly. The silicon still does *lots* of stuff behind your back, for instance implementing algorithms for managing bus bandwidths, scheduling processor pipelines and controlling DRAM. And these are NOT free nor trivial. Silicon can even be used to directly implement malicious behavior. See http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may08/6171. The final frontier is further away than you think. “The last piece of the computer puzzle to become free” ? Not exactly.
The silicon still does *lots* of stuff behind your back, for instance implementing algorithms for managing bus bandwidths, scheduling processor pipelines and controlling DRAM. And these are NOT free nor trivial. Silicon can even be used to directly implement malicious behavior. See http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may08/6171.

The final frontier is further away than you think.

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