For the longest time, I thought you couldn’t boot Windows on Libreboot.
I wish more laptops had the option for Libreboot or Coreboot. I’m so tired of the monopoly proprietary firmware vendors have.
Its because its not as simple as just freely supporting it. Frameworks CEO talks about it in a podcast on yhe idea if they fully went behind coreboot, the hardware release cycle would at least be a generation behind, and if youre a fledgling business whose main focus is environment, repair and upgradibility first, that would likely end in the bankruptcy of your business.
+1 for this. My tech hope in 2024 is… “RISC-V has reach the perfect system for consumer level” like I installed Debian on my thinkpad laptop, without any error…
On a side note, t440p’s {core,libre}boot is not completely foss, they still use a proprietary blob for mrc (at least AFAIK). Yet it’s still way better than other options
That’s not true anymore, somebody from the community reverse engineered the MRC blob a couple months back. The only RYF concern is Intel Management Engine (which is disabled, but still its there). LibreMRC is still being tested, the resolution for SeaBIOS is still messy but it works!
Well, I guess I now have an incentive to order yet another t440p motherboard to bring mine back to life and go playing with it once again. Tnx for the info!
I think part of the problem is that all of the modern hardware is a black box on some level or another.
kinda sacrilege lmao
- removes and mostly disables firmware level spyware
- runs spyware OS
More people run Windows than Linux, and it would help Libreboot to have that adoption
Don’t you mean coreboot, as the point of Libreboot is that it’s a coreboot distro that’s as open and libre as possible
I’m really curious from this, is there any perfomance impact if we change to Libreboot? if so (boost windows performance at least up to 10%) then I’ll take it for my audio plugins set live. Really cool to see T440p Libreboot-ing here!
Modern OS pretty much takes completely over after the preboot is done. There will be very negligible difference in the os unless the old firmware was poorly configured (fairly common, admittedly)
Not that I’ve tested, but the peformance gain would probably be slim. Overall, its running pretty smooth on my setup.
