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Leah Rowe ist kein Roweboter May 12, 2024

The Canoeboot project provides free (libre) boot firmware based on coreboot, replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware on specific Intel/AMD x86 and ARM based motherboards, including laptop and desktop computers. It initialises the hardware (e.g. memory controller, CPU, peripherals) and starts a bootloader for your operating system. GNU+Linux and BSD are well-supported. Help is available via #canoeboot on Libera IRC.

Should Canoeboot become GNU Canoeboot?

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Canoeboot – Should Canoeboot become GNU Canoeboot?

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cocolinofan May 18, 2024

@libreleah If Canoeboot provides firmware without binary blobs, then what is Libreboot doing?

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Leah Rowe ist kein Roweboter May 18, 2024

@cocolinofan providing support for more hardware, and providing regularly tested binary releases of coreboot (coreboot only does source releases). see: https://libreboot.org/docs/maintain/

Libreboot – LibreBoot MaKe (lbmk) build system design and maintenance manual

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cocolinofan May 19, 2024

@libreleah I see. So in order from proprietary to free would be:
Coreboot > Libreboot > Canoeboot
Brilliant.
As to the name "GNU Canoeboot" is ok for the symbolism but just "Canoeboot" sounds better.

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Leah Rowe ist kein Roweboter

@cocolinofan Canoeboot->Libreboot is also possible (people can send patches to Canoeboot and I'll cherry-pick in Libreboot).

Yes, what you've said is otherwise the default workflow: coreboot->libreboot->canoeboot

By the way, Canoeboot has an equivalent version of that page:

https://canoeboot.org/docs/maintain/

Canoeboot and Libreboot are essentially coreboot distros. It's the same concept as a Linux distro, but for your boot firmware.

Canoeboot – Should Canoeboot become GNU Canoeboot?

Libreboot – LibreBoot MaKe (lbmk) build system design and maintenance manual

Canoeboot – cbmk maintenance manual