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I think the money quote from a comment is Purism’s Librem 15 will ship with an Intel CPU fused to **run unsigned BIOS** code This is apparently the first ti
by ploxiln 11y ago
I think the money quote from a comment is
Purism’s Librem 15 will ship with an Intel CPU fused to **run unsigned BIOS** code
This is apparently the first time a laptop is (almost) available with a recent Intel cpu where this is the case. This is needed for an attempt to port coreboot to be possible.
Original claim here: https://puri.sm/posts/pioneering-cpu-efforts-to-liberate-laptop-hardware/ https://puri.sm/posts/pioneering-cpu-efforts-to-liberate-lap...
- pgeorgi 11y agoThat claim only deals with Haswell since before that, there was no fuse to prevent running unsigned BIOS code (also known as Intel Boot Guard). Since there are Haswell Chromebooks, there are devices on the market that also provide this feature. The limitation for libreboot devices using recent Intel chips is the ME firmware which is always signed, but not on the CPU and not BIOS code. So the statement is technically correct - through some _very_ careful choice of words.