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Would someone explain the significance of this? IIRC, Purism's goal is a completely open platform, hardware and software, and I know coreboot is open BIOS, but
by hackuser 10y ago
Would someone explain the significance of this? IIRC, Purism's goal is a completely open platform, hardware and software, and I know coreboot is open BIOS, but I'm not sure how big an advance this is.
- badosu 10y agoIt was using a proprietary BIOS previously. It still has Intel's ME (Management Engine) proprietary blob, and at least 2 months ago it was using a reverse-engineered, but not complete, driver for the trackpad. However it has made significant progress since the first revision on many aspects, and I hope it will someday be totally 'pure'.
- AdamJacobMuller 10y agoI'm very glad that they are shipping first, and trying to fix the binary blob issues later. If they tried to completely free the system first, they would never ship anything and once they did, it would already be terribly out of date (though these aren't state of the art anyway).