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librecore is a distribution of Free/Libre firmware recipes for compiling and generating firmware for devices. -The intended targets for the firmware include only those which can be run in total freedom by the user. -This means that librecore firmware is distributed as source code, and does not include any binary blobs. The purpose of this project is to push the limits of software freedom in boot firmware.

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librecore is free firmware not unlike coreboot however with a different focus. While we collaborate with coreboot and share mature code to further these goals, our focus is more around maintainability and feature completeness of more libre hardware platforms such as POWER, SPARC, RISC-V and other non-x86 ISA's.

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Not a particularly exhaustive list, the following helped put together this page:

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We welcome all forms of collaboration - social, security, new ports, documentation and otherwise. Please do reach out to us either by github pull-requests, issues, wiki edits or our freenode IRC channel #librecore.

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librecore is a distribution of Free/Libre firmware recipes for + compiling and generating firmware for devices. + The intended targets for the firmware include only those which can + be run in total freedom by the user. + This means that librecore firmware is distributed as source code, + and does not include any binary blobs. The purpose + of this project is to push the limits of software freedom in boot + firmware. +

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librecore is free firmware not unlike coreboot however with a + different focus. While we collaborate with coreboot and share mature + code to further these goals, our focus is more around + maintainability and feature completeness of more libre hardware + platforms such as POWER, SPARC, RISC-V and other non-x86 ISA's. +

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+ + Authors and Contributors +

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Not a particularly exhaustive list, the following helped put + together this page:

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We welcome all forms of collaboration - social, security, + new ports, documentation and otherwise. Please do reach out to us + either by github pull-requests, issues, wiki edits or our freenode + IRC channel #librecore. +

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+ While Librecore shares much of its source code with coreboot, and + also collaborates with coreboot, and even sends patches to + coreboot, there are also some differences between the two + projects. +

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+ While the differences are subject to the evolution of both + projects and their members, so far we identified some below. +

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+ To support some devices, coreboot uses Huge silicon manufacturer + provided blobs like AMD's PI and Intel's FSP.
+ Such blobs are responsible for enabling most of the hardware, + which is what coreboot is supposed to do in the first place. This + relegates coreboot to a wrapper of such blobs, leaving it very few + things left to do. +

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+ Because of that Librecore chose not to use such blobs. As a result + of that, the hardware requiring such blobs is supported by + coreboot but not librecore. +

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+ When such blobs are optional, not having the option to use them is + less confusing for users and/or developers. +

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+ Coreboot uses Silicon manufacturer provided free software source + code (Like AMD's AGESA) that don't follow the same design or code + practices than the community is used to:
+ Such source code often contains a layer to abstract the OS or, + here the boot firmware project it's used with. This is a well + known issue[1] + in free software projects that interact with hardware. While such + code is really valuable as it provides a good working reference, + but it has huge maintainability issues.
+ The Linux kenrel also has to deal with this issue, and because of + the maintability issues, decided not to use that kind of code + as-is. +

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  • + [1] + A sumarry of the last incarnation of this issue in the Linux + kernel, at the time of writing can found at lwn.net: + https://lwn.net/Articles/708891/
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librecore is free firmware not unlike coreboot however with a - different focus. While we collaborate with coreboot and share mature +

librecore is free firmware like coreboot, but with some + different focus. + While we collaborate with coreboot and share mature code to further these goals, our focus is more around maintainability and feature completeness of more libre hardware platforms such as POWER, SPARC, RISC-V and other non-x86 ISA's. From e076879d013dd26bcac195dd53a62a88e87556fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 15:00:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 4/5] Add gitignore. This ignores some text editors's temporary files. 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