Purism Librem 5 Hardware Schematics

Re:Purism Librem 5 Hardware Schematics by cia-killer on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @04:42PM (#21697038)

Pretty interesting, I hope they make something similar for the laptops. I use an x200 with Libreboot to avoid the proprietary software in new Intel chips and the bios. It's still fast since I use Arch with dwm, but at some point in the future I would like to switch.

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Re:Purism Librem 5 Hardware Schematics by fghtr on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @04:55PM (#21697205)

> I hope they make something similar for the laptops

From https://puri.sm/faq/: "We cannot share the schematics nor design currently because it is copyright encumbered from Intel reference designs. In the future, on future versions we plan to be able to release those."

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Re:Purism Librem 5 Hardware Schematics by icefog on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @08:54PM (#21698938)

> x200 with Libreboot

How safe are those now that the Intel vulnerabilities are known? I doubt hardware that old is getting microcode updates.

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Re:Purism Librem 5 Hardware Schematics by thinkmassive on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @10:32PM (#21699359)

You can disable hyperthreading to mitigate a lot of Intel vulnerabilities. Qubes, which is a popular OS choice within the coreboot crowd, does this by default.

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Re:Purism Librem 5 Hardware Schematics by icefog on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:11PM (#21705032)

But not all of them, right? Some of the vulnerabilities do require upstream microcode updates, and without them, I feel like the risk introduced outweighs any benefit provided by Libreboot.

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Re:Purism Librem 5 Hardware Schematics by ajxs on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:55PM (#21699207)

Hi Luke M Smith, how's it going? I love your channel.

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