| ▲ | zeafoamrun 7 hours ago |
| Kudos for getting this done! Sad that free BIOSes are so far behind modern hardware, but this is very necessary work. |
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| ▲ | avph 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You can get much more modern hardware with firmware. This was mostly an expirement to see how good LLM are at reverse engineering. Given that it went well I think making fully free (without Intel) x86-side firmware is possible. |
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| ▲ | zeafoamrun 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Companies put a ton of work into proprietary RAM training algorithms that I think would be hard to replicate. I know AMD has open sourced their older pre-Zen BIOS and that has made its way into coreboot, but Zen1+ is all proprietary. | |
| ▲ | Arodex 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | >Fully free [The following question is only valid if you meant "free" as in "GPL/BSD"] Is it completely clear that LLM code is considered "clean room" and won't leak copyrighted code? | | |
| ▲ | avph 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | IANAL but on a technical level I'd say it's clean room and not subject to the original copyright for at least 2 reasons: the LLM for sure hasn't seen init code for this platform before, and there is no leak on the internet. It hallucinated register semantics often, suggesting it hasn't seen the original code. Also, coreboot code looks and, to some extent, works differently than the vendor reference code that I have seen for other platforms, making it not subject to any copyright claims.
Lastly no copyright claim can be made on LLM generated works, but given the non-negligible human effort put into this, I'm not sure what the upshot is here. Still non copyrightable does not mean it's not free, it's something like public domain. |
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| ▲ | hexagonwin 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| i don't think it's really "far behind", it just can't run on hardwares that require manufacturer keys (e.g. intel bootguard) afaik all modern x86 chromebooks ship with coreboot based firmware |
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| ▲ | zeafoamrun 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Last time I bought a chromebook it was horribly locked down, I couldn't even install my own OS. Has that changed? | | |
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