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To support some devices, coreboot uses Huge silicon manufacturer
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Because of that Librecore chose not to use such blobs. As a result
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When such blobs are optional, not having the option to use them is
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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:<br>
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<a id="ref-ptr-1" class="anchor" href="#ref-1">[1]</a>
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.<br>
The Linux kenrel also has to deal with this issue, and because of
the maintability issues, decided not to use that kind of code
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