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Enabling software longevity (Tl;dr - Old laptops will be getting firmware/BIOS updates from out) (frame.work)
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[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Is coreboot for framework actually being worked on in earnest? My googling only turned up that one guy was doing some basic work on it but only as a concept.

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Chromebook editions use coreboot already, it shouldn't actually be too hard to get it to work on all editions (for Framework). I guess they just have other plans currently.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

The Chromebook version comes with coreboot because that's a requirement for all Chromebooks. It would be nice if all editions had that, but IIUC the Chromebook's motherboard is also a bit different.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

amd is working to support it, i don't think framework has any plans for now but they definetly should