MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi DDR5 Support Upstreamed To Coreboot

[Alexmitter]

Coreboot is such a low effort project (I'm not belittling its developers, I'm just stating the obvious - it doesn't have nearly enough manpower), expecting it to work better than the official proprietary EFI ROM sounds like a case of hopium.

Maybe it has some obscure bugs fixed for obscure no longer supported motherboards but I don't expect it to fare better than for modern still supported motherboards.

Never used a single modern board from any manufacturer that just works, Asus, Asrock, MSI does not matter, Intel or AMD? Does not matter. So the bar to match is quite low. I have a very nice board that was supposed to be a Chromebox, it runs stock Coreboot and its just a very nice trouble free experience.

[marlock]

AFAIK the main point of CoreBoot is avoiding our hardware being hostage to this sort of shenanigans:

https://hackaday.com/2017/12/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-intel-management-engine/

Most likely soon to be joined in the halls of cybersecurity infamy by Microsoft's Pluton security chip, which follows a similarl(y idiotic) concept and is sure to end in a similarl(y horrid) headline:

https://semiaccurate.com/2021/12/01/qualcomm-8cx-gen-3-too-dangerous-to-deploy/

It's unfortunately being pushed by Microsoft as a Windows 11 security feature and AMD's Ryzen 6xxx CPU series is adopting it, so the result of someone eventually finding a backdoor into it is probably gonna be far worse that Intel ME, which was really terrible already.

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/pro-security