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Libreboot Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Adds More Hardware Support (9to5linux.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I imagine open source boot software being better than closed source (a real no brainer) but whats the difficulties with the open one? I'm not very versed in those very low level things.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    All those blobs in there need to be reverse engineered. As there are not that many people doing it, this hardware is often a decade old

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not entirely the case anymore. Libreboot switched to a blob reduction policy in order to support more hardware. Hopefully this will bring things forward quite a bit over the next year.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Unless they support the newer platforms, it will remain a niche product. I've come to accept a compromise between binary blobs and FOSS bootloader, and the path that Libreboot has chosen is great for the community, so we'll wait and watch

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