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Re:Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream by ttgurney on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:43AM (#32179999)
I got the DIY edition of this a few months ago and have been using it continuously since then. Nice piece of hardware and I'm glad I bought it. Only big thing missing for me is user-modifiable firmware. Combine this thing with the Coreboot and neutralized Intel ME of Purism's products, and I would have no reason to use anything else. Currently this has a typical proprietary EFI firmware and no legacy BIOS support, which I wouldn't expect most people to care about but I find it a bit annoying.

I've also had some issues with the CPU temperature consistently pushing into the 90s when running big multicore workloads. Not sure why. Rather than look into applying new thermal paste or whatever, I just turned off Intel turbo boost, this is of course a performance hit but it keeps the whole thing very cool and improves battery life.

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Re:Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream by nrp on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:48AM (#32180048)
Glad to hear that you're enjoying it! On the CPU temperatures, Boost will deliberately and safely let the CPU run up to a maximum of 60W and 100C for a short period of time at the start of heavy load before dropping back to 28W (11th Gen) or 30W (12th Gen).

On an open UEFI solution, that is on our long term roadmap, and we're currently hiring for firmware positions to speed up kicking off this work. Edit: Also, our Embedded Controller firmware is open, though that is somewhat orthogonal to UEFI: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/EmbeddedController

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Re:Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream by kitsunesoba on Thursday July 21, 2022 @12:32PM (#32181399)
I would think that legacy BIOS support will be increasingly rare in the coming years. CSM support in UEFI is also likely not long for this world.
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Re:Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday July 21, 2022 @11:17PM (#32188076)
If we had user modifiable coreboot it would probably be (relatively) easy enough to drop in a seabios payload.
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