Libreboot 20230413 has been released. The libreboot project offers a free BIOS/UEFI firmware replacement that boots specific Intel/AMD x86 and ARM targets.
Libreboot 20230413 released!
This release was build-tested on Debian Sid, as of 13 April 2023. Your mileage may vary, with other distros. Refer to Libreboot documentation.
Work done since last release
For more detailed change logs, look at the Git repository. This is a summary of changes.
Summary of changes:
Zero code changes within coreboot on any boards, but the build system went through a mild overhaul:
- Massive code cleanup of util/nvmutil, and improved error handling.
- Insert scripts for post-release sandybridge/ivybridge/haswell ROMs are now much easier to use, and less error-prone.
- A few problematic boards, for which ROM images were excluded in the previous release, have now been removed from the Libreboot build system. They will be re-added in a future release, and you can find a list of them in the detailed changelog below.
- Haswell (T440/W541): mrc.bin insertion is now correct, on the blobutil script. In the previous release, Libreboot’s build system inserted this at the wrong location in the ROM, after downloading it; coreboot’s own build system does it correctly, and that is used when compiling, but post-release ROM images have it inserted with equivalent logic in the Libreboot build system, instead. - NOTE: libre raminit is also available, if you choose the ROM images with t440p_12mb in the filenames, whereas t440pmrc_12mb images need mrc.bin for raminit. More info about this is in the previous release.
Libreboot – Libreboot 20230413 released!
