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Re:PinePhone Misconceptions by floatboth on Saturday January 25, 2020 @09:06AM (#22146279)
Modern desktop CPUs require blobs to boot (Intel FSP / AMD AGESA), Intel laptops (except Chromebooks) are especially bad because Boot Guard. Anything with Allwinner/Rockchip/NXP/Marvell SoCs is not nearly as closed.
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Re:PinePhone Misconceptions by swiley on Sunday January 26, 2020 @03:51PM (#22154709)
How are chrome books more free? Don’t they require everything to be signed (with support for disabling user space checks at the cost of a loud threat from the firmware during start up?)
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Re:PinePhone Misconceptions by floatboth on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:14PM (#22187562)
It's not a "loud threat", and it's only if you keep the stock coreboot. With a debug cable, you can flash anything you want, I have a fully custom coreboot+edk2 build with cleaned ME and no signature checks anywhere.
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