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From: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
To: devel@spectrum-os.org, Michael Raskin <7c6f434c@mail.ru>
Cc: Molly Miller <mm@m-squa.red>
Subject: [PATCH www 3/1] design.html: mention goal of diverse build hardware
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 23:54:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201129235402.28711-1-hi@alyssa.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kgVjD-0000Xy-VM.7c6f434c-mail-ru@smtp37.i.mail.ru>

Thanks-to: Michael Raskin <7c6f434c@mail.ru>
---
 design.html | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/design.html b/design.html
index 285d743..a126bee 100644
--- a/design.html
+++ b/design.html
@@ -151,14 +151,14 @@ anybody currently working on Spectrum but would be a very welcome
 contribution.
 
 <p>
-Ideally, all Spectrum packages, for all architectures, would be built on
-POWER9 hardware.  Even if a user has to trust the x86_64 computer
-available to them, anti-freedom firmware, undocumented backdoors and
-all, they would be able to benefit from binary packages that were
-built on trustworthy hardware without these limitations.
-Unfortunately, preliminary research has shown that x86_64
-virtualization on POWER9 is not currently sufficiantly performant for
-this to be feasible.
+Ideally, all Spectrum packages, for all architectures, would be built
+on diverse hardware including a platform with POWER9's level of
+openness.  Even if a user has to trust the x86_64 computer available
+to them, anti-freedom firmware, undocumented backdoors and all, they
+would be able to benefit from binary packages that were built on
+trustworthy hardware without these limitations.  Unfortunately,
+preliminary research has shown that x86_64 virtualization on POWER9 is
+not currently sufficiantly performant for this to be feasible.
 
 <p>
 <small>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-- 
2.27.0

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-29 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-18 12:01 [PATCH www] design.html: backpedal a bit on POWER9 Alyssa Ross
2020-11-18 12:52 ` Michael Raskin
2020-11-20 14:06   ` Alyssa Ross
2020-11-21 15:23 ` [PATCH www 2/1] design.html: mention aarch64 as well as x86_64 Alyssa Ross
2020-11-21 16:34 ` Michael Raskin
2020-11-22 20:09   ` Alyssa Ross
2020-11-29 23:54   ` Alyssa Ross [this message]

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