The Librem 13 v1 coreboot port is now complete

puri.sm

96 points·Nelkins··6 comments

I've found this, and the previous blog posts, to be some very inspiring stories[1][2][3]. Definitely some of the best debugging I've read about.

[1] https://puri.sm/posts/diving-back-into-coreboot-development/

[2] https://puri.sm/posts/librem-13-coreboot-report-january-12-2...

[3] https://puri.sm/posts/librem-13-coreboot-report-february-3rd...

Librem 13 is a laptop: https://puri.sm/products/librem-13/

Does anyone own one? Are they nice to use and work with?

Would someone explain the significance of this? IIRC, Purism's goal is a completely open platform, hardware and software, and I know coreboot is open BIOS, but I'm not sure how big an advance this is.

It was using a proprietary BIOS previously.

It still has Intel's ME (Management Engine) proprietary blob, and at least 2 months ago it was using a reverse-engineered, but not complete, driver for the trackpad.

However it has made significant progress since the first revision on many aspects, and I hope it will someday be totally 'pure'.

I'm very glad that they are shipping first, and trying to fix the binary blob issues later. If they tried to completely free the system first, they would never ship anything and once they did, it would already be terribly out of date (though these aren't state of the art anyway).

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