Mastodawn

Cursed Silicon Mar 11

@elly @frameworkcomputer Watching with genuine excitement for my AMD FW 13

@CursedSilicon @frameworkcomputer I shall attempt to boot an OS, but I should swap the SSD. It would suck to corrupt rootfs on my work drive

Cursed Silicon Mar 11

@elly @frameworkcomputer Time to ask my work to buy me one so I can beta test it! (without bricking my personal one)

WeirdTreeThing Mar 11

@elly @frameworkcomputer gottem

Jimmy Jim Mar 11

@elly @frameworkcomputer that's pretty poggers

@starchturrets @frameworkcomputer now I need to sort this mess into upstreamable patches without relying on hacks

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Grunge Fox

@elly I wonder, is this in any way related to the work that Framework sponsored years ago, or did you do this independently of them? Because I remember reading some kind of thread on the Framework Community, where some employee stated that they already donated a few devices to the Coreboot community, but I haven't seen or heard of any progress on that since then...

Unless they've sent those devices for no reason at all, just like they did with Omarchy /s

@grunge_fox I was just so annoyed at stock firmware that I did this to my work laptop (it's insane that my manager allowed me to do this). I haven't been paid for this aside from regular salary I'm currently getting for working part-time for $company (due to health reasons).

Grunge Fox

@elly Ah, so another example of the community having to make all the work for Framework. Truly one of the companies of all time 👍 /s

Well, I wish you good health then

Gus Mar 11

@grunge_fox @elly IIRC those ones were the earlier Intel models with Boot Guard fused off (unlike the production laptops).

The Framework CEO made some offhand comment at the time like "to work with Intel Boot Guard then we'll need to make a firmware shim that's signed, and then it'll chain to Core Boot." Suspect that thought bubble lasted about as long as any lawyers from Intel or their BIOS partner hearing about it...

Good if the AMD ones aren't as locked down, that's awesome - lots of potential for open source to step up where Framework has systemically underachieved! 👏

@projectgus @grunge_fox nothing stops them from signing builds with their BootGuard key, just saying

CBnT tooling is integrated in coreboot, Intel CPUs are well supported. In fact, I worked on PantherLake alongside people from Intel and Google to have SoC code ready before they showed it publicly at CES2026 so PantherLake shipped with day 0 coreboot support (despite changing quite a bit from previous generation).

All that would be needed would be a nerd with ADHD (like me) getting schematics under NDA, writing code, and Framework signing the builds. Sure, end-users wouldn't have as much control over their systems but they would still be better off than relying on InsydeH2O which is just... ugh.

Gus Mar 11

@elly @grunge_fox Very good points.

I guess this would require them to value BIOS quality enough to put even a little increased resources into it, and evidence for this remains slim... but here's hoping.

Cheers to the ADHD nerds of the world getting annoyed and building it anyway!

Moses Izumi Mar 11

@elly
Alternate timeline where a case vendor like Lian Li or CoolerMaster made a thin-ITX laptop kit and @frameworkcomputer never made it past the spermal phase.

Princess Serena Star ✨Mar 11

@[email protected] @frameworkcomputer framework 16 spotted (i have the same cpu in my dell)

@Starcross it required a fair bit of work to get to this point, but honestly... I expected more issues. It was surprisingly smooth sailing.

- https://github.com/openSIL/openSIL/pull/43
- https://review.coreboot.org/q/topic:%22phoenix_opensil_poc%22

Fix building phoenix_poc with coreboot by ellyq · Pull Request #43 · openSIL/openSIL

Fixes: python: can't open file '/mnt/workdir/coreboot-upstream/src/vendorcode/amd/opensil/phoenix_poc/opensil/util/kconfig/lib/genconfig.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory make: *...

GitHub

Louis Mar 11

@[email protected]

RAM: 0MBIn 2026? That checks out

witch hat hacker

@elly @[email protected] omg how

Haelwenn /элвэн/

@elly RAM: 0MB

Wow, this computer is ready for ram scarcity ^^ (Also reminds me of 80's computers with single digits KBs of RAM)

@lanodan nah, that's probably a bug in Matt's (MrChromebox) EDK2

Onestacked Mar 12

@elly @frameworkcomputer I'd love having coreboot for my intel 12th gen framework 13, but I don't have the knowledge or time to port it myself.

Moses Izumi Mar 12

@elly @frameworkcomputer
How much storage capacity does the SPI chip have?
It'd be neat to have some kind of software development environment (complete with documentation) straight in the ROM.