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Because EFI. We can't grant or adopt hardware that contains locked non-free firmware. Regular BIOS are bad enough! | Because EFI. We can't grant or adopt hardware that contains locked non-free firmware. Regular BIOS are bad enough! | ||
Regular BIOS are nasty binary blobs already. EFI potentially can prevent us from installing Free software on the machine, by restricting installs to Windows or whatever OS has a key it is configured to recognize. | |||
Revision as of 01:54, 12 June 2013
What's Coreboot?
coreboot is an alternate firmware image for PC BIOS. It is tiny and only loads a "payload", usually a linux kernel or SEABIOS or such. http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot
http://www.seabios.org/SeaBIOS
Why coreboot?
Because EFI. We can't grant or adopt hardware that contains locked non-free firmware. Regular BIOS are bad enough!
Regular BIOS are nasty binary blobs already. EFI potentially can prevent us from installing Free software on the machine, by restricting installs to Windows or whatever OS has a key it is configured to recognize.