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Re:The Gluglug – GNU/Linux laptop with libreboot firmware by tinco on Monday July 20, 2015 @07:02AM (#9915171)
It's been a long time since I've built a computer myself, but back in the day the Intel chipsets weren't the only ones that could boot Intel processors unless I'm mistaken there were always 1 or 2 alternatives. Or is this not the case for laptop systems? And what about AMD, do they do the same thing?

http://shop.amd.com/en-us/business/notebook/20DE001RUS

They do have laptops with AMD chipsets.

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Re:The Gluglug – GNU/Linux laptop with libreboot firmware by pgeorgi on Monday July 20, 2015 @07:48AM (#9915345)
Intel CPUs are tied to specific Intel chipsets these days, with no third party vendors.

AMD used to be much better (they have some small firmware for a support function that was signed, but even that was so half-hearted that one coreboot developer managed to recover the key - but didn't publish it).

These days they support ARM Trust Zone (with an ARM processor), and that part of the system is all signed (as "Trust" doesn't mean that _you_ can trust it).

It's Hollywood, essentially - can't have you crack your movie-playing device to copy their precious bits. And what else would anybody use a computer for, if not for watching blockbuster movies?

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Re:The Gluglug – GNU/Linux laptop with libreboot firmware by Narishma on Monday July 20, 2015 @09:40AM (#9915929)
That hasn't been the case for a long time (a decade?). Nowadays you can only use Intel chipsets, even in desktop systems. I believe it's the same for AMD.
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