[Libre-soc-dev] Some interesting

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Fri Feb 5 19:22:22 GMT 2021


On Friday, February 5, 2021, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:

>
> It raises a question:  what is the boundary between hardware and firmware?
> If, for example, the so-called firmware were in read-only memory within
the
> D-DIMM so that it could not be changed, would that make it hardware?

yes, except this is even worse.  any errors or spying backdoors could not
be removed at all.

l.


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