Libreboot

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A Lemmy community for Libreboot, the essential firmware for fully liberating your laptop!

Libreboot is a free (libre) BIOS/UEFI replacement. Based on coreboot, the aim is to distribute low-level boot firmware that is 100% free software, and easy to use.

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Librebooted ThinkPad T420 (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With the help of a friend, I librebooted my T420! I used a Raspberry Pi 4B and Pomona 5250 to flash the GRUB payload. It boots extremely quick now and just works. Despite the picture, I'm running the latest June 25th release but I put the old gnulove.jpg background picture on.

The only issue is when I reboot from Linux, my SSD isn't recognized until I power it off and back on again (cold boot). The folks in the IRC say it's probably a bug.

Overall, I'm happy with the state of my ThinkPad and it's running as much libre code as it reasonably can (but I still like having WiFi).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it contain the me_cleaner, intel management engine remover?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, the ME is neutered :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Perfect!