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> Open source firmware is a great and necessary idea, but I do not think the Libreboot project, cool as it may be, is ever going to make substantial progress to
by duskwuff 6y ago
> Open source firmware is a great and necessary idea, but I do not think the Libreboot project, cool as it may be, is ever going to make substantial progress towards that (for non-decade old laptops).
Not only that, but the Coreboot project -- which Libreboot is a fork from -- has been making incremental progress towards open-source firmware. Their firmware still contains some binary blobs, but, unlike Libreboot, it's actually usable on some modern hardware, and they're making progress towards replacing some of those blobs with free substitutes.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoActually, I'm a bit out of the loop - is coreboot a strict superset of libreboot? Can you do a checkout of the coreboot code and do something like `./configure --no-blobs --target=thinkpadx60 && make` for systems that support it and get effectively the same thing that libreboot would have given you?
- spijdar 6y agoNot a strict superset, it's more accurate to say libreboot is a restricted and modified (old) subset of coreboot. I don't think coreboot has catered to blob free enthusiasts the same way libreboot has, and I believe the build system is different, so the answer is probably no (?)
- rambojazz 6y agoLibreboot is one of the several distributions of coreboot. Looks like coreboot only provides the sources but not the compiled binaries.