alt Hacker NewsBecause it's true, and I know what he said, I am not confused at all. Did you not read anything at all?
On the Librem laptop, the tampering is done by PureBoot and inject into /run/firmware. The other user was linking the stuff with the laptop.
*On a Librem 5, it is stored on a separate chip, then they read it with the initramfs, then mount it on top of the regular filesystem at /lib/firmware*.
Like I said, it's just shuffling stuff around.
Here is the actual code, if you care enough to read it: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/librem5-fw-jail/-/blob/pureos...
If you can't read code, here is the marketing material: https://puri.sm/posts/shipping-new-sparklan-wifi-cards-with-...
If you don't know that the firmware for components/peripherals can either be uploaded to them by Linux or just stored on some flash chip on the component, read: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/refer...
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I'm tired of arguing with you. I see no effort from your side to come to some understanding or to clarify anything. Here's why.
> On the Librem laptop, the tampering is done by PureBoot
What do you mean by "tampering" here? Is uploading firmware to peripherals a "tampering"? Why is this a problem, compared with other devices? Does anybof those blobs run on the CPU? I don't understand what you are trying to say.
> If you don't know that the firmware for components/peripherals can either be
I do know. How is this relevant? I never denied that the device does have some proprietary blobs.
For the record, the "jail" only exists so PureOS (or any other distro) does not have to distribute any blobs within its repositories or include them in their images - though distros still can if they choose to, like postmarketOS does for example. There's very little difference between a firmware blob that's stored in a peripheral's internal flash, NOR flash or OS rootfs when it comes to user freedom, in the end it gets executed the same way on the same hardware. Having a separate place for these blobs only simplifies their management and allows to put a clear distinction of what's free and what's not. The important thing is that, regardless of whether the "jail" is used or not, there's not a single blob that runs on the user's CPU within the user's system on the Librem 5, which isn't a unique property for a phone but rare nevertheless; the peripherals are a different thing and Purism has never claimed that there are no blobs there (in fact, the existence of e.g. the DDRC blob was being highlighted already in very early development).
(also, the NOR flash itself already had to be there because that's what TPS65982 boots from, so the "jail" is just using the 4MB storage that would otherwise remain mostly empty)