Installing Libreboot

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Piriponzolo
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Joined: 02/19/2016

Hi to everyone! Have you an idea on how installing Libreboot in the HP 530 notebook? Thank you.

jxself
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Joined: 09/13/2010

Unlike an operating system like Trisquel, libreboot's not a generic thing that can be installed on any machine that someone happens to have. It needs support for specific machines.

So: first you'll have to add support for the HP 530 notebook because libreboot only supports the machines listed on their website, which doesn't mention the HP 530: https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/

Adding support is not trivial. You're looking at months of full-time work, on the easy side, and that's if it can be done at all.

But if it can be done, and you're able to do it, it would help move free software forward by having one more machine with free boot firmware.