Installing Debian on modern hardware

Posted Jan 21, 2021 12:26 UTC (Thu) by amacater (subscriber, #790)
In reply to: Installing Debian on modern hardware by pabs
Parent article: Installing Debian on modern hardware

Given that Lenovo now explicitly support Linux on their machines - ask them to lean on Intel and AMD and the firmware vendors? - but I don't hold out much hope.

Installing Debian on modern hardware

Posted Jan 21, 2021 13:01 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Lenovo are a part of the problem, for example Intel's open source Sound Open Firmware (SOF) project has published, openly licensed and fully buildable source code, but Lenovo and other OEMs require Intel-signed builds of SOF by default. Some laptop vendors do not require signatures for firmware running on Intel's sound hardware though. Also they don't have any plans to support coreboot.