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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Nov-2021 20:00:24 UTC Bernie

   I want to run #Coreboot on my laptop and on my PC!
   https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Coreboot-4.15

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Nov-2021 19:13:07 UTC Bernie

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     • Marco Tozzini

     @lubimaer Yes... more or less.

     #Coreboot is a modular framework, and there's a traditional PC BIOS payload as well as a UEFI firmware payload.

     You can also bundle a GRUB bootloader or even the entire Linux kernel. Perhaps that's a good idea for PC-based embedded systems, but if you're going to have an NVMe drive anyway, I don't see the advantage of loading the kernel from a smaller flash that's harder to update.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot#Payloads

   • Marco Tozzini (lubimaer@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 20-Nov-2021 19:13:08 UTC Marco Tozzini

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     @codewiz what's that exactlyt? Open source BIOS?

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Nov-2021 19:14:52 UTC Bernie

     in reply to

     • Marco Tozzini

     Several years ago, I flashed my Thinkpad X230 with #Coreboot, and it barely worked:
     https://codewiz.org/wiki/CorebootX230

     @lubimaer

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Nov-2021 19:15:54 UTC Bernie

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     • Marco Tozzini

     Now you could just buy a #system76 laptop with #Coreboot out of the box:
     https://system76.com/laptops

     @lubimaer