I’m quite interested in putting coreboot onto my laptop, if that’s possible. But first I want to know if it’s reliable as I’ll be using this laptop for school, and if I can even do it in the first place.
I have an Acer Aspire A515-47, AMD Ryzen 5 5625U. I don’t know any detailed information about the motherboard, nor northbridge or southbridge. I did try to find them but I couldn’t find anything online. I mention these as they were mentioned on the coreboot docs.
Also from the docs, I’ll be doing the internal method as my laptop already, obviously, runs Linux (Fedora Silverblue).
When I was looking into this for current hardware it seemed impossible. I gave up after realizing even System 76 has gone proprietary with their boot loader implementation, especially with their towers which are based on commercially available hardware. It is really shitty theft of ownership bullshit IMO. Maybe check in with Leah Rowe at Libreboot and see if she has any ideas.
probably not, coreboot only really supports old (<7th gen intel) platforms.
here’s a list of working platforms if you’re curious:
So then how come Nova Custom do modern intel CPUs?
From the looks of it Coreboot just doesn’t support AMD.
I know of exactly 1 AMD corebooot laptop. Starlabs Starfighter.
For coreboot you’re basically on Intel. As others mentioned, look up dasharo. They have added support for two modern MSI motherboards and Intel cpu models.
In case you haven’t seen it already - 3mdeb shared some info on the state of things during last FOSDEM. If I’m not mistaken they also did an update the year before too.
AMD platform support is coming to coreboot in the next few years, consumer platforms much later and even there I’m doubtful it’d come to your laptop in particular.
Get a Frame.work with Intel chip if you want coreboot on a modern laptop soon-ish. I know the guy working on that port ;)
