Libreboot 20230625 released
Hi everyone!
Libreboot 20230625 just came out. New stable release.
Link: https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot20230625.html
Brief summary of changes since 20230423 release:
* Massive build system audit, bugs fixed. Cleaner BSD-like coding style now used for much of the logic.
* Two new boards (HP 2570p and 8300 USDT)
* Microcode-free ROMs available, as alternative to default ROMs that include it.
* gru-* chromebook fixes: more reliable boot/shutdown
* Better error handling in lbmk
* Forked spkmodem-recv from GNU, *pledged* it and re-wrote in OpenBSD coding style
For list of changes since last stable release, 20220710, check 20221214 20230319 20230413 and 20230423 release logs in addition to the new 20230625 log.
Of particular interest to Trisquel people: https://libreboot.org/news/microcode.html
This change is present in the new release, which means that FSDG-compatible boards are now available blobless again, in Libreboot. That includes all the older boards, and the recently added Dell Latitude E6400, a popular one due to not requiring disassembly for flashing:
https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/e6400.html
Enjoy!
~Leah
Thank you for the great news and links Leah!
So happy I'll be getting my machines back from you this week with all that goodness inside :)... what is there not to smile big!
Very inspiring too, you set a deadline and did it just as you said you would!
> what is there not to smile big!
If we are all fine smiling big at extra non-free software running on our machines, nothing at all.
Trisquel users do not wish to be scared into accepting non-free microcode updates. At the minimum, this should be posted in the General (non-)Free Software Talk section, and cleared from links to nonsensical content. CPU microcode being software obviously makes any updates to such microcode software too. Pretending otherwise is taking users for idiots.
The legit version of Libreboot comes with no non-free software whatsoever in it: libreboot.at. Nor does it try to scare users away from software freedom for commercial purposes. Calling those who value software freedom fools is not massively helpful. Deliberately creating confusion by calling free software what is not, is clearly counterproductive. Please, abstain.
debian-12.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
Install debian 12.
Install check-dfsg-status_1.33_all.deb.
Command check-dfsg-status -s
returns
firmware-misc-nonfree
intel-microcode
According to libreboot policy packet intel-microcode
is not non free software because
microcode is not software? Thanks.
O 2023-06-26 11:26, name at domain escribiu:
> Trisquel users do not wish to be scared into accepting non-free
> microcode updates.
You don't speak for Trisquel users, you self-appointed overtly entitled
guy.
Kind regards,
Ignacio Agulló.
Feel free to speak for yourself if you wish to be scared into accepting non-free microcode updates, you self-appointed overtly entitled
Ignacio Agulló.
Kind regards,
guy.
What you do mean by "scared"? And confusion?
I for one, even as a new user, think of all of this as choice, like any other choice, whatever one is free enough to choose... or reject!
I want nothing hidden, obscured, unfree, on the other hand, my other half will need some of it for 3D printing, kinetic art and more, until he is able to replace all... who am I to unfree him of conscious choice, or anyone else as a matter of principle, specially if they don't lie to themselves in order to pacify an ego.
'Free to be' vs 'free to be a slave', not so clear a difference if self-honesty is masked.
> What you do mean by "scared"? And confusion?
I mean this, for instance:
Or pretending that CPU microcode updates are no software, as mentioned above.
"It’s natural that some people may wish to cause random kernel panics, raminit failures, thermal safety issues, random data corruption in memory, and other similar issues commonly caused by lack of microcode updates. Such folly should be discouraged, but the user’s freedom to choose should also be respected, and accomodated."
Good, thank you! It's essential to know the possible consequences of our choices, but if there are consequences, there is greater power in the decisions we make.
I see most risks as infinitely less significant than the freedom I gain for thinking and acting according to what I think is right.
Good to read that you did not get unduly scared. Indeed it shows that you know what you are standing for. The risks are deliberately overstated to make it sound scary, you can be relieved on that side too.
All these machines have been running without any extra blob for more than a decade. They are certainly not going to suddenly melt down at once - except possibly for those who would be unwisely tempted to throw some non-free CPU microcode updates into them, adding extra uncertainty since none of this code can be audited.
Greetings; if I understand correctly, if I just get a the corresponding t400 rom from here: (https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/libreboot.org/release/stable/20230625/roms/), I will have a blobless librebooted t400 that complies with the RYF certification, correct?