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Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by mjg59 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:38PM (#18127463)
As pointed out this isn't what happens, but even if vendors did ship Coreboot it'd have the same behaviour (because that's what the vendors want) and you still wouldn't be able to reflash it because they'd still be using Boot Guard. Coreboot isn't some magical freedom enhancing technology that can be sprinkled on a platform to make it respect its users, in the same way that the use of Linux in Android doesn't guarantee any strong user benefits over the iOS kernel.
Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by Sir_Cmpwn on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:40PM (#18127468)
I think the implication was pretty clear that coreboot plus the ability to reflash your firmware is necessary.