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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Support for coreboot can't come soon enough. My fingers are already tingling in excitement for that day.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Until then

Also adding the not available Purism Librem Laptop lol.

Or Thinkpads up to T430, they work pretty okay.

Or a ton of Chromebooks (with lots of drawbacks like bad keyboard, underpowered, low storage, bad repairability)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are in the EU? Damn I thought US

btw anything from India, Africa, Australia, south america etc?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I just checked, they are in the UK, so not EU (anymore)

I'm not sure about Linux laptop manufacturers in India, Africa, Australia, south america etc from the top of my head, sorry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it even coming? They don't seem very interested

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We actually already have an experimental coreboot port on the FW 13 AMD.

And, from my understanding, Framework has sent over a device to make this possible.

However, I don't know if it will ever get official support. Though, surely, I hope it will.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you for this info! I expected this to be more feasible on the Intel models for whatever reason. Glad to see a glimmer of hope for the AMD platforms.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I expected this to be more feasible on the Intel models for whatever reason.

Historically, in the past few years, for devices that support coreboot, we've had more Intel models than AMD models. So perhaps that's were your hunch stems from.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yes, exactly this, though I know Jeremy Soller from System76 has been working on Coreboot for AMD UMA platforms a couple years back.

There's hope, still 😅