Libreboot Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Adds More Hardware Support
Libreboot Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Adds More Hardware Support
Libreboot 20240225 open-source BIOS/UEFI firmware is now available for download with support for more hardware and various improvements.
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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.
The difficulty is getting closed source hardware manufacturers to adopt it.
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
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.
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