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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 02:50:18 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

   • elly

   @elly like, for example, dell optiplex 780 was ported to libreboot last year. i don't think we even submitted it to coreboot gerrit yet. that's an *old* desktop, from like 2009

   libreboot supports hardware even older than that, e.g. t60.

   whereas i'm also targeting newer hardware now.

   all the other coreboot distros are either only doing old hardware, or only new hardware. so they find it easier

   whereas libreboot wants it all. like, 2005-gen all the way to 2025. the maintenance burden is insane

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 02:53:11 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • elly

     @elly yeah so like, take mrchromebox. it's just edk2. take heads: it's just linux(and u-root). and they mostly only focus on newer stuff.

     so a lot of coreboot distros will have very simple build systems, and configs that are mostly universal to all machines, actual coreboot config notwithstanding, and heads for example will have different kernel configs.

     so libreboot's build system is designed to be very modular, and i'm ruthless about simplifying everything as much as possible all the time