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Libreboot Sees First New Release In Nearly 5 Years, Supports More Old Motherboards

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 25 2021, @09:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the open-source++ dept.

takyon writes:

Libreboot Sees First New Release In Nearly 5 Years, Supports More Old Motherboards

Libreboot as the Coreboot downstream focused on providing a fully open-source BIOS/firmware replacement without any black boxes / binary blobs is out with a new release. The prior tagged release of Libreboot was all the way back in 2016 while has now been succeeded by a new release albeit in testing form.

Libreboot 20210522 allows more Intel GM45 / X3X era hardware to work with this fully open-source alternative to proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. New boards supported by this Libreboot release include the Acer G43T-AM3, Lenovo ThinkPad R500, Lenovo ThinkPad X301, and Intel G43T-AM3. Yeah, it's quite hard in 2021 to get excited about Socket 775 motherboards or 45nm Penryn laptops. Libreboot is largely limited to supporting these outdated platforms due to its focus on being fully open-source and not using any Intel FSP binaries, etc.

Previously: Replace your Proprietary BIOS with Libreboot
AMD to Consider Coreboot/Libreboot Support
Libreboot Applies to Rejoin GNU

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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @03:42PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @03:42PM (#1138605)

    So, they've managed to add support for a handful of "new" old devices, while the whole list of all the AMD id 10h/15h boards that used to be supported and work just fine have been removed with no real plan to ever get them supported again.

    Not sure what you're talking about. Libreboot has only ever supported a very short list of boards. Prior to this release, on the list of libreboot-supported boards [archive.org] there are just 3 entries that would count as "AMD id 10h/15h boards".

    The new list [libreboot.org] appears to have exactly the same list of "AMD id 10h/15h boards".

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  • (Score: 2) by drussell on Friday May 28 2021, @05:41PM

    by drussell (2678) on Friday May 28 2021, @05:41PM (#1139754) Journal

    The boards in question were removed way back in the 4.11 release.

    Prior to 4.11, the following were all supported:

            advansus/a785e-i
            amd/bimini_fam10
            amd/mahogany_fam10
            amd/serengeti_cheetah_fam10
            amd/tilapia_fam10
            asus/m4a785-m
            asus/m4a785t-m
            asus/m4a78-em
            asus/m5a88-v
            avalue/eax-785e
            gigabyte/ma785gm
            gigabyte/ma785gmt
            gigabyte/ma78gm
            hp/dl165_g6_fam10
            iei/kino-780am2-fam10
            jetway/pa78vm5
            msi/ms9652_fam10
            supermicro/h8dmr_fam10
            supermicro/h8qme_fam10
            supermicro/h8scm_fam10
            tyan/s2912_fam10

  • (Score: 2) by drussell on Friday May 28 2021, @05:46PM

    by drussell (2678) on Friday May 28 2021, @05:46PM (#1139757) Journal

    Oops, I forgot the link to the "TODO" page:

    https://libreboot.org/tasks/#amd-fam10h-fam15h [libreboot.org]