Leah Rowe
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i noticed that the enablement patch came first, before the actual driver. while this functioned overall, it was obviously flawed in terms of the resulting git history. the person who sent the patch previously had 0046- on both patch names, which meant that alphabetical sorting caused the enablement patch to be applied before the driver patch. furthermore: it seems that the submitted had manually re-applied the same Kconfig changes in the enablement patch, adding their own name - since Kconfig is not copyrightable anyway, in this specific example, or otherwise trivial, it's probably fine, but the original author on the gerrit patch is actually Matt DeVillier: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/88490 I have therefore simply re-based by checking out Matt's patch, on patchset 1. However, patchset 1 of Matt's patch uses patch set 16 of: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/75286 HustlerOne's lbmk merge uses patchset 18: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/75286/18 The differences between the two can be observed, thus: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/75286/16..18 It should be clarified that these patches are not upstreamed yet, but under heavy review on gerrit. However, testing has revealed that the patch is mostly stable. Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
Libreboot
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Libreboot provides libre boot firmware on supported motherboards. It replaces proprietary vendor BIOS/UEFI implementations, by
- Using coreboot to initialize the hardware (e.g. memory controller, CPU, etc.) while minimizing unwanted functionality (e.g. backdoors such as the Intel Management Engine)
- ... which runs a payload such as SeaBIOS, GRUB, or U-Boot
- ... which loads your operating system's boot loader (BSD and Linux-based systems are supported).
Why use Libreboot, and what is coreboot?
A lot of users who use libre operating systems still use proprietary boot firmware, which often contain backdoors and bugs, hampering user freedom and right to repair.
coreboot provides libre boot firmware by initializing the hardware then running a payload. However, coreboot is notoriously difficult to configure and install for most non-technical users, requiring detailed technical knowledge of hardware.
Libreboot solves this by being a coreboot distribution (in the same way that Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution). It provides a fully automated build system that downloads and compiles pre-configured ROM images for supported motherboards, so end-users could easily fetch images to flash onto their devices.
Libreboot also produces documentation aimed at non-technical users and excellent user support via IRC.
Contribute
You can check bugs listed on the bug tracker.
You may use Codeberg pull requests to send patches with bug fixes or other improvements. This repository hosts the code for the main build system. The website lives in a separate repository.
Development is also done on the IRC channel.
License for this README
It's just a README file. It is released under Creative Commons Zero, version 1.0.