I’m quite interested in putting coreboot onto my laptop, if that’s possible. But first I want to know if it’s reliable as I’ll be using this laptop for school, and if I can even do it in the first place.
I have an Acer Aspire A515-47, AMD Ryzen 5 5625U. I don’t know any detailed information about the motherboard, nor northbridge or southbridge. I did try to find them but I couldn’t find anything online. I mention these as they were mentioned on the coreboot docs.
Also from the docs, I’ll be doing the internal method as my laptop already, obviously, runs Linux (Fedora Silverblue).
probably not, coreboot only really supports old (<7th gen intel) platforms.
here’s a list of working platforms if you’re curious:
https://www.coreboot.org/status/board-status.html
So then how come Nova Custom do modern intel CPUs?
From the looks of it Coreboot just doesn’t support AMD.
I know of exactly 1 AMD corebooot laptop. Starlabs Starfighter.
For coreboot you’re basically on Intel. As others mentioned, look up dasharo. They have added support for two modern MSI motherboards and Intel cpu models.
In case you haven’t seen it already - 3mdeb shared some info on the state of things during last FOSDEM. If I’m not mistaken they also did an update the year before too.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Open-Source-FW-2023
Not true. Look at Novacustom and the dasharo website. They support 11th and 12th gen Intel CPUs!
Novacustom
Dasharo Docs supported Hardware List