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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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