To the best of my knowledge, VIA CPUs have no secure boot, management engine, or any other proprietary secondary hardware. Coreboot supports many VIA CPUs and

To the best of my knowledge, VIA CPUs have no secure boot, management engine, or any other proprietary secondary hardware. Coreboot supports many VIA CPUs and motherboards[1], though it's unclear if it uses any binary blobs the FSF seems alright with VIA Technologies and apparently they're cooperative with open-source BIOS[2]. 1. https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards 2. https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html