System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open-Source Firmware

Re:System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open... by dochtman on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:59PM (#21218571)

What about oreboot, the Rust version of coreboot? I know you have a history with writing Rust code, so are you looking at oreboot as an alternative to coreboot for these purposes, as well?

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Re:System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open... by isantop on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:13PM (#21218692)

I can't answer the technical side of that really well (IIRC something about targetting different things or something), but I wanted to comment that the name (Coreboot without the C) is genius. There is an Oreboot sticker on my fridge.

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Re:System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open... by skoocda on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:13PM (#21229543)

A bit of a double meaning here too:

Rust is actually just hematite (ferric oxide), which is a type of iron ore!

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Re:System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open... by jackpot51 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:52PM (#21219045)

oreboot does not support x86 at this time, and does not plan to.

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Re:System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open... by tpearson-raptor on Thursday October 10, 2019 @08:17PM (#21220474)

There's a stated reason for that by the oreboot project -- it's because you can't have a fully open source boot firmware on x86 systems.

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