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What about Libreboot? Doesn't that allow booting x86 without binary blobs?

• panny 6y ago
  Yes, very old hardware that's no longer on the market. I don't consider that a solution. Eventually that pool of hardware dries up.
  • drewbug 6y ago
    https://libreboot.org/suppliers.html https://libreboot.org/suppliers.html
  • daffy 6y ago
    It's easy to find x200 etc. used. Flashing is another story.
    • fsflover 6y ago
      > Flashing is another story. https://tehnoetic.com/tet-lis https://tehnoetic.com/tet-lis
• numpad0 6y ago
  They still need some parts of blobs to configure/initialize the system and that “some” now means full MINIX kernel along its userland
  • daffy 6y ago
    Are you saying a librebooted machine is still probably backdoored?
    • dannyw 6y ago
      Precisely.
  • fsflover 6y ago
    You are talking about Coreboot, not Libreboot. The latter has no blobs whatsoever.
    • daffy 6y ago
      Does that mean that a firmware backdoor is impossible or very unlikely?
      • fsflover 6y ago
        Yes, it should be harder.
  • boring_twenties 6y ago
    That's not correct, Libreboot does not work on those systems that require any part of the ME to boot. You might be thinking of me_cleaner[1], which removes most but not all of the ME blobs. This is unrelated to Libreboot though, it works on newer systems and is not needed when using Libreboot because the latter gets rid of the (very early versions of) the ME completely. [1] https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner