[coreboot] Best supported modern laptop?

[Timothy Pearson]

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On 01/30/2017 02:12 PM, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> I'm primary interested in it because of faster booting speed and in
> general getting rid off the stone-age functions vendor bios contains
> which are completely unnecessary to boot a modern x86-computer.
> 
> I don't mind if coreboot contains cpu microcode etc.
> 
> As far as I know the only total free computer is the X60.
> 
> But isn't this whole privacy issue more a topic for libreboot?

No, not really -- people have many reasons for wanting to use coreboot
over a vendor firmware, and these reasons influence our recommendations.

Furthermore, I was specifically referring to the ME|PSP and
FSP|binaryPI, not microcode.  On many modern systems coreboot is a
simple shim around vendor firmware, and in such cases you may or not
gain anything by using coreboot versus the vendor firmware, depending of
course on how the vendor implemented their firmware.  This includes boot
time; on platforms with large amounts of RAM where most of the time is
spent in memory initialization, you will effectively be running the same
MRC binary as the vendor firmware, so you won't really see a decrease in
boot time.

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Timothy Pearson
Raptor Engineering
+1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line)
+1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard)
https://www.raptorengineering.com
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