"The first high-end laptop that respects your freedom and privacy. The Purism Librem 15 is the first laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications."

>i7-4770HQ

haha

Intel cant even get rid of binary blobs from their official open source Atom platform (minnowboard).

Intel UEFI bios is >100K lines of hand tuned spaghetti code that never saw version control system, thats straight from the mouth of Intel employee.

RexRollman

I know that legacy BIOS has its issues, but from what I have seen and read, EFI/UEFI is a quagmire.

tryp

(U)EFI is essentially a little OS that eventually loads the OS that runs the software you care about. Intel sponsors most of the core OS code (mirrored) at: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2

A Bios vendor takes that code, drops in a bunch of hardware init code from Intel (or AMD), adds thier own user interface, "csm16" old-school BIOS implementation, and value-adds like debugging and automation for factory test and provisioning.

In order to comprehend anything in the codebase, the first step is probably to get acquainted with the local vernacular. https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Acrony...