| ▲ | iamnothere 8 hours ago |
| This is Libreboot, not Coreboot. Libreboot removes binary blobs and Intel ME. It’s a freedom-oriented distribution of Coreboot. |
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| ▲ | cpburns2009 7 hours ago | parent [-] |
| I realize that, but what's the selling point of Libreboot on Chromebooks when Coreboot is already supported, and it merely merged in support from Coreboot? |
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| ▲ | iamnothere 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Assurance that binary blobs and Intel ME support has been properly removed. It’s possible to do this with Coreboot if you know what you’re doing, but this is an off the shelf configuration. | | |
| ▲ | panny 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Nothing has changed about modern Intel CPUs requiring binary blobs. Libreboot is no longer blobless. Canoeboot is blobless. Libreboot is like decaf. It's not caffeine free, it's decreased caffeine. | | |
| ▲ | iamnothere 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | You’re correct, I guess haven’t been following this over the last few years. It looks like blobs are now merely minimized and ME is neutered with me_cleaner. So the only difference versus stock coreboot is that these minimizations are now the default configurations. Old Libreboot is now apparently Canoeboot, same dev but different project name. |
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