Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > https://puri.sm/faq/ > > Technical & Advanced > Can I buy a Librem with a proprietary BIOS/UEFI? > > No. We ship with the free software firmware coreboot. We don’t ship Librem 13 > or Librem 15 with any proprietary BIOS/UEFI.
(Note: This is an ambiguous situation, where Purism are attempting to do the right thing and doing laudable work concerning among other things the Intel ME issue. I'm making no accusations. I'm dismayed by needless hostility erupting in this thread, and would appreciate if people calmed down.) Coreboot itself is free software but by design hosts proprietary plugins. In that regard, it differs from its militantly free software fork libreboot, which of course in consequence supports much less software. Purism stating that the ship with the free software firmware coreboot thus does not totally answer the question posed in the FAQ. If Purism wished, it could elaborate to state whether or not proprietary Intel firmware BLOB must be loaded by coreboot to initialise the Librem 15's chipsets. The need to do so is sadly common, hence why use of coreboot is much more common than that of Libreboot. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
