Feature #461
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Replacing Haswell mrc.bin blob with free software
Added by akjuxr3 akjuxr3 about 1 year ago.
Updated about 1 year ago.
Description
Currently in case of the ability to run as less amount of closed source software as possible and still have Microcode updates the reduced Intel ME with disabled bit in IFD and the lga1155 or the mobile versions of those cpus are the only option for x86_64 out there.
The next cpu generation (Haswell) inside for example T440p and W541 require the binary blob mrc.bin
Are there any plans of replacing the Haswell mrc.bin with free software? Or have the x86_64 platform be given up when the goal is to run just free software and the people should move to aarch64 or risc-v?
akjuxr3 akjuxr3 wrote:
Currently in case of the ability to run as less amount of closed source software as possible and still have Microcode updates the reduced Intel ME with disabled bit in IFD and the lga1155 or the mobile versions of those cpus are the only option for x86_64 out there.
The next cpu generation (Haswell) inside for example T440p and W541 require the binary blob mrc.bin
Are there any plans of replacing the Haswell mrc.bin with free software? Or have the x86_64 platform be given up when the goal is to run just free software and the people should move to aarch64 or risc-v?
Already being worked on, refer to https://review.coreboot.org/q/topic:haswell-nri
Already being worked on, refer to https://review.coreboot.org/q/topic:haswell-nri
Great! Have missed this before. When the pending patches (currently most of them are currently from 07.2022) get merged, this feature-request can be closed.
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