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92 | 7 | |
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10.0 | 8.2 | |
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coreboot
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Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates
Why BIOS (did you mean UEFI?) when it runs the best boot loader, which is Coreboot¹. Many users would love to re-flash their bios/uefi for it, if it’s supported.
1: https://www.coreboot.org/
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C++ is everywhere, but noone really talks about it. What are people's thoughts?
Coreboot is 0.6% C++.
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Laptops with best Linux support (latest gen, battery life, performance)?
NovaCustom ; some models come with Dasharo a coreboot distribution.
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Asus flip c302 last update
You can also use Mr. Chromebox Script to install Coreboot on your chromebook to get a UEFI BIOS on your Chromebook and then you can go an install either a linux distro or even Windows if you want. It's a pretty straightforward process and also reversable if you want to go back to just using ChromeOS.
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A Linux laptop under 1350€
Some models are available with Dasharo a [coreboot]https://www.coreboot.org/) distribution.
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why no haswell_ult_dmi_registers for broadwell? in https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/blob/master/util/inteltool/pcie.c
why no haswell_ult_dmi_registers for broadwell? in https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/blob/master/util/inteltool/pcie.c
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Having issues restoring the firmware with u/MrChromebox's utility
use croshfirmware.sh from https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/tree/master/util/chromeos
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AMD to move to open source firmware in 2026
There may be other protections to restrict SPI flash access for security reasons (so you might not be able to flash your custom firmware in the OS), but worst case you can use a HW flasher (or maybe USB flashback). Still, this doesn't address the elephant in the room - platform initialization code might be open-sourced, but that isn't everything. You'll still need to figure out the board-specific stuff (the Super I/O chip, chipset GPIOs, other peripherals, etc.). Using coreboot as an example, Intel provides the Firmware Support Package blob to handle platform initialization. I think AGESA is somewhat similar to this, though Intel publicly releases the binaries for use in coreboot/etc. Thanks to the FSP, coreboot has support for recent Intel chipsets. However, there is only support for two recent consumer boards: the MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi DDR4 and DDR5.
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what is VCU (Validation Control Unit) mailbox in haswell nri
does anyone know what is https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/blob/b12caef23bc1b29c2e658f2b728cc4beac1e62b9/src/northbridge/intel/haswell/vcu_mailbox.c
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Need stock ROM for Acer Chromebook CB314 - DROID
Download crosfirmware.sh and run it from command line: bash crosfirmware.sh droid
FSP
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MrChromebox-4.20 firmware release is out
I tried to find in the Intel GitHub repo, but it's not there, and there's an unanswered question about it from you https://github.com/intel/FSP/issues/74
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AMD to move to open source firmware in 2026
There may be other protections to restrict SPI flash access for security reasons (so you might not be able to flash your custom firmware in the OS), but worst case you can use a HW flasher (or maybe USB flashback). Still, this doesn't address the elephant in the room - platform initialization code might be open-sourced, but that isn't everything. You'll still need to figure out the board-specific stuff (the Super I/O chip, chipset GPIOs, other peripherals, etc.). Using coreboot as an example, Intel provides the Firmware Support Package blob to handle platform initialization. I think AGESA is somewhat similar to this, though Intel publicly releases the binaries for use in coreboot/etc. Thanks to the FSP, coreboot has support for recent Intel chipsets. However, there is only support for two recent consumer boards: the MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi DDR4 and DDR5.
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AMA - Intel and Micro Center on the Intel 13th Gent Core Desktop Processors -October 21st 8:30am to 2:30 pm PDT
May I ask why? I'm not talking about the source code, only about the final binaries. Intel already released many for previous platforms here https://github.com/intel/FSP. So I don't understand the security concerns you are referring to.
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Intel Confirms Alder Lake BIOS Source Code Leak, New Details Emerge
It's not entirely open source (it still depends on the FSP binaries), but Intel has released UEFI initialization code for older platforms. They also contribute platform support to coreboot (though this also depends on the FSP).
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Default blobs?
More recent Intel platforms (as of today, Haswell/Baytrail and newer) need some blobs to perform hardware initialization. There are two types of blobs: the non-redistributable MRC.bin and refcode blobs (which can be manually obtained from Chromebook recovery images), and FSP (binaries available in a GitHub repo). coreboot automatically includes FSP if the platform needs it and https://github.com/intel/FSP has the binaries.
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A Dream Come True: Running Coreboot On A Modern, Retail Desktop Motherboard
Intel publish some version of FSP in this repo. Unlike other blobs interface to FSP is documented and standarized in specification. There is even one related to security, which Qubes OS should probably consider as mendatory for certain hardware certification levels.
What are some alternatives?
1vyrain - LiveUSB Bootable exploit chain to unlock all features of xx30 ThinkPad machines. WiFi Whitelist, Advanced Menu, Overclocking.
edk2-platforms - EDK II sample platform branches and tags
edk2 - EDK II
efitools - Fork of jejb's efitools
u-boot - "Das U-Boot" Source Tree
UEFITool - UEFI firmware image viewer and editor
OpenCore-Install-Guide - Repo for the OpenCore Install Guide
thinkpad-firmware-patches - Collection of ThinkPad UEFI patches.
ExpansionCards - Reference designs and documentation to create Expansion Cards for the Framework Laptop
thinkpad-ec - Infrastructure for examining and patching Thinkpad embedded controller firmware
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
edk2 - EDK II