• Pantherina@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    All those blobs in there need to be reverse engineered. As there are not that many people doing it, this hardware is often a decade old

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      8 months ago

      Not entirely the case anymore. Libreboot switched to a blob reduction policy in order to support more hardware. Hopefully this will bring things forward quite a bit over the next year.

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        8 months ago

        Unless they support the newer platforms, it will remain a niche product. I’ve come to accept a compromise between binary blobs and FOSS bootloader, and the path that Libreboot has chosen is great for the community, so we’ll wait and watch