[coreboot] Are any Chromebooks able to run fully libre?

Sam Kuper sam.kuper at uclmail.net
Sat Dec 21 03:32:30 CET 2013


On Dec 21, 2013 1:02 AM, "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" <
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> The big question is why someone doesn't want to have blobs in the system:
> 1. Freedom: The FSF/Stallman say that ROMs are hardware and thus the
> "software" aspect of free software does not apply, i.e. closed source
> ROMs are OK.

I *might* feel closed-source ROMs weren't too bad if they were genuinely
ROMs and were well-studied/fuzzed and found benign.

Are there many genuine ROMs (not, for instance, EEPROMS) in Chromebooks? If
so, how well-studied & by whom?

Thanks,

Sam
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