Re: Maybe the operating system shouldn't use the BIOS.
> A reminder that Coreboot is a thing, for some machines. That's the only way to be sure.
Sure of what? Still shoves blobs of binary "video driver" and microcode and so on into the system... better, perhaps... if better is even a thing in this context... but are you sure you're sure?
...and that's before you start heading down recursive compiler trust rabbit holes and the like...
...and then there's the hardware itself of course... Intel openly admits it'll secretly bake whatever secret instructions it's secretly given into its consumer chips as long as it's adequately profitable... ...other designers?... ...and fabs?...
Who do you trust? Of what are you "sure"?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
