Article 6HGBF GNU Boot Drops Some Motherboards & CPU Code After Discovering Non-Free Bits

GNU Boot Drops Some Motherboards & CPU Code After Discovering Non-Free Bits

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The GNU Boot project has been in the works as a Coreboot/Libreboot fork focused on "freedom respecting boot firmware" that is free from closed-source and proprietary components. But in working towards its inaugural v0.1 release, they discovered that they had inadvertently been shipping some non-free software around AMD CPU microcode updates and some motherboard ports with non-open-source code...
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