Coreboot 4.21 Brings More System76 Laptops, Star Labs and MSI Z790-P Support
Coreboot 4.21 Brings More System76 Laptops, Star Labs and MSI Z790-P Support
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Besides all of the Google Chromebook ports, the other standout is seeing all of the new System76 laptops upstreamed in Coreboot. These System76 laptops are already shipping Coreboot out-of-the-box while it's nice that System76 continues upstreaming these targets for ensuring their longevity and being a good upstream member of the Coreboot open-source community.
Another worthy shout-out is StarLabs with their continued Coreboot efforts. Their Intel Raptor Lake based Star Labs Star Labs StarBook Mk VI is now supported with Coreboot 4.21.
More details on the changes to find with Coreboot 4.21 can be found via the release notes. Coreboot also shared that following this release they will be transitioning development from the Git "master" branch to now using a Git "main" branch. There is also initial work on transforming Coreboot's code from camel case to snake case.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Coreboot 4.21 is available this week as the newest tagged release for this open-source system BIOS/firmware solution.
Coreboot 4.21 brings a number of new motherboard ports as well as various core improvements.
Some of the core enhancements with Coreboot 4.21 include improving its boot splash screen support around its JPEG decoder, a rewritten UCHI root-hub driver, extracting of TPM logs using the cbmem tool, the RISC-V code is now enabled to build with Clang, resource allocation above the 4GiB boundary has been improved, and a variety of other hardware improvements.
Some of the integrated tooling inside of Coreboot has also been improved like Intel 700 series chipset support for the inteltool utility and Intel 800 series chipset support inside the ifdtool.
It's great having a readily-available Intel Raptor Lake desktop motherboard with upstream Coreboot support, complementing 3mdeb's earlier MSI PRO Z690 work.
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