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Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

iamnothere

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  • iamnothere
    Everyone’s focusing on the AI policy (perhaps because Leah for some reason said this was the most important part of the release), but the UEFI/EDK integration and Chromebook support is a massive step forward. Suddenly Libreboot has multiplied the devices available by many times, and future devices will be much easier to add. This is huge.
  • kyrra
  • cwiggs
    Wow, this is awesome! This relates to work I've been doing with the [Heads](https://osresearch.net/) project. Specifically I got a PR merged for the first ChromeOS Port using MrChromebox's code as an upstream dependency: https://github.com/linuxboot/heads/pull/2133I'm now working on the 2nd ChromeOS device in this PR right now: https://github.com/linuxboot/heads/pull/2225 And there is a 3rd port by someone else: https://github.com/linuxboot/heads/pull/2219I'm surprised Libreboot was able to add all the ChromeOS devices at once, Just adding the 2 ports for Heads hasn't been easy, although I'm not an expert when it comes to Coreboot.Anyway, I love seeing more support for Chromebooks, they are great devices. Funny enough my Acer Chromebook (Kano) is now more open and more secure than my Framework 13s.
  • lf88
    It's refreshing to see serious open-source projects adopting a strict policy on LLM-assisted contributions.Besides considering frontier LLMs a serious threat to humanity, I find LLM-assisted programming simply...not fun! I tolerate only AI-assisted bug reports, as they are genuinely useful.
  • AdmiralAsshat
    > Imported all 233 currently supported Chromebooks from the MrChromebox coreboot distro. Baytrail (Kip) tested - others need testing. Source-only in this release (must build from source, no binaries provided).Nice. I think I loaded MrChromebox onto my Google Pixel some years ago. I should see if it can get Libreboot now.
  • Krei-se
    I'm on a libreboot-only infrastructure and can recommend. It's easy to do and you dont need to keep track of how to configure coreboot.It just works and that's great.
  • bassie123
    Nice! I took a 250eu chromebook, turned it into my Linux laptop perfect little machine. A bit slow but 4 cores + 8gb ram will do.
  • cpburns2009
    I thought Chromebooks natively came with Coreboot support.