Coreboot 4.13 Adds Intel TXT, Picks Up New Boards For AMD Pollock, Intel Alder Lake

[davidhendricks]

I wish they'd support real-world boards. All you see is of course Chromebooks [...]

No: https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/cor.../src/mainboard

But just normal boards, like some ASRock/Asus, MSI, GB, Biostar, Jetway, Sapphire, whatev. or normal notebooks ... meh.

Fortunately there are companies like Purism (https://puri.sm/) and System76 (https://system76.com/) that ship some very nice products with coreboot. It took a long time for laptop vendors to care about Linux, lesson being that if you actually care about libre-friendly hardware then make your purchasing decisions accordingly and reward those who care about it too.

[kukrimate]

I wish they'd support real-world boards. All you see is of course Chromebooks cause google data-kraken pays for it (well, at least they spend some money for a good thing), though you wonder how locked down therse Chromebooks might be if you really test ist, and then, there are some server boards and a few older ones - but often those are hard to come by these days. And developer boards. Which is okay if mainboard vendors would use those to get (a libre) Coreboot running on their own boards.

But just normal boards, like some ASRock/Asus, MSI, GB, Biostar, Jetway, Sapphire, whatev. or normal notebooks ... meh. You hardly see anything. Thus is remains a nice dream and kind of an academic toy.

I added support for the Biostar board mentioned in the article. Support for Sandy/Ivy Bridge desktop hardware (and newer ones with MRC or FSP) is there and new motherboards are not too hard to support. If the Super I/O is already in the tree, it is doable basically in an afternoon. I could probably add support for just about any desktop LGA-1155 board in the same amount of time. It is far from an academic toy, it works really well on Google's product and hobbysts like me can port most commerical hardware if support for the core platform is there, but since there is no commerical interest/support, the porting work happens basically all for personal use.