On 2021-08-22 at 02:28, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Reco wrote: > >>> This made me think, is there a FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) that you can >>> install/flash to replace the manufacturer's? >> >> Coreboot is what you're thinking of. Supported motherboard's list >> is extremely limited though. > > There is a grub-coreboot package, is that it? No. If you look at the output of $ apt-cache show coreboot you'll see that it says "This is a dependency package for a version of GRUB that has been built for use with platforms running the Coreboot firmware." As that indicates, this is not / does not install coreboot itself, it only installs a version of GRUB that knows how to interact with coreboot. > And how do you know if its supported? Read the coreboot board-compatibility list, which to the best of my ability to determine on short notice is at: https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html I haven't looked in depth, but https://doc.coreboot.org/mainboard/index.html and/or the rest of https://doc.coreboot.org/ might be useful. > I think I have a > > Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming > > motherboard. You'd need the actual, internal model number, but I suspect that that is far too new to be likely to be (well-)supported yet. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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