this passage hit android right in the face for me. hopefully we can get rid of it now in less than 30yrs...

" In the 1980s the functionality of a microcomputer was determined at least as much by its firmware in ROM as by its hardware. The Apple MacIntosh might have had a similar hardware architecture to the Atari ST, but each had its own different operating system in ROM.

Of course there were those brave people who would replace the ROM chips inside their computers by ROMs they had programmed themselves, so they could regain complete control over their machines, which was lost when the front panel had disappeared. Coreboot is just such an endeavor. "

it's nice that everyone can compile an android rom, but with closed drivers and proprietary boot managers we are in that precarious state...