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btw today is libreboot day. first release ever was on 12 december 2013

today is 12 december 2024. therefore, today is libreboot's 11th birthday!

libreboot.org/

it's the free/opensource bios replacement that i maintain, based on coreboot.

Libreboot – Libreboot projectLibreboot – Libreboot projectLibreboot – Libreboot project
Psyhackological

@libreleah is anything missing in libreboot compated to coreboot? I mean in the functionality only besides proprietary blobs.

@psyhackological @libreleah

Leah tends to add in stuff on top of coreboot, only removing nonfree blobs

@gwennelsonuk @psyhackological Yes well, the most scientific way to describe Libreboot's nature is to link the build system documentation:

libreboot.org/docs/maintain/

In the same way you can think of Debian as a Linux distribution, so too is Libreboot a coreboot distribution.

As for binary blobs, Libreboot's policy on this is here:

libreboot.org/news/policy.html

The distro concept evolved over time, but Libreboot's primary purpose is to remove blobs when feasible, and to provide ideally free firmware.

Libreboot – lbmk maintenance manualLibreboot – lbmk maintenance manualLibreboot – lbmk maintenance manual

@gwennelsonuk @psyhackological Naturally, Libreboot does provide a lot of patching on top of the various upstreams that it supports. For example, the GRUB payload in Libreboot contains native drivers for xHCI controllers and NVMe SSDs, whereas the upstream GNU GRUB project is missing these.

Coreboot is heavily patched. In some cases, entire boards are supported in Libreboot, where they are not yet merged upstream - nowadays, some boards even appear in Libreboot first, or are stable there first.

@libreleah @psyhackological

Yep, you maintain a distribution - and a damn nice one.

Do you still maintain osboot too?

@libreleah @psyhackological

osboot is basically libreboot with blobs, right?

Cos sometimes a platform may require them to work at all and it's still more free than 100% proprietary firmware.