Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI)

[Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>]

The Wanderer wrote:

>> 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.

OK, thanks.

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