Really loving seeing more hardware supporting and shipping with open-source firmware.
If you want to install this please DO NOT USE THE CH341A programmer. That fucking shit has the internal control signals and data signals at 5V and the bios chips usually work at 3.3V or lower.
The CH341A is defective by design and the Chinese manufacturers don’t care. There are fixes online, but still the chip works badly.
If you want to install libreboot, please use any other option given at Libreboot docs. I lost too many hours because of the fucking Chinese ch341a. Which I solved quickly with a pi pico board.
In any case do not use this guy’s video as an example. The instructions of the video ARE WRONG and you may fry your bios. Don’t be fooled by this youtuber confidence. Follow the docs.
I’ve installed it on a x220.
You can get a 3.3V adapter for the CH341A.
I did that my self (fixed the chip), the cables and everything shiped with it are trash.
I agree about the accessories, they’re crap but cheap to replace with better ones. And then the programmer works very well.
I imagine open source boot software being better than closed source (a real no brainer) but whats the difficulties with the open one? I’m not very versed in those very low level things.
All those blobs in there need to be reverse engineered. As there are not that many people doing it, this hardware is often a decade old
Not entirely the case anymore. Libreboot switched to a blob reduction policy in order to support more hardware. Hopefully this will bring things forward quite a bit over the next year.
I use a System76 laptop and I wish they took a stronger stance on freedom.
Is this usable on any normie gamer mobos?
Ah yes. Libreboo
It’s to scare away proprietary firmware
