LWN: Comments on "The Sound Open Firmware project launches"

The Sound Open Firmware project launches

pabs — Fri, 15 May 2020 06:21:34 +0000

Sadly many laptop OEMs (including Lenovo Thinkpads) are requiring Intel/OEM signed binaries, so developers and end users aren't able to build the firmware themselves and run their own binaries. There seems to be some sort of debug/community keys that allow a limited feature set. I assume they disable DRM/HDMI or something similar.

https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/2571
https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/2888
https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/1885
https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/2200

PS: some links to other open firmware:

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open

The Sound Open Firmware project launches

scientes — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:38:08 +0000

SSD/HDD firmware too.

The Sound Open Firmware project launches

mdolan — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 04:20:09 +0000

You may also find linuxboot.org interesting.

The Sound Open Firmware project launches

marcH — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 04:44:48 +0000

> It is an increasingly poorly kept secret that, underneath the hood of the components that most of us view as "hardware", there is a great deal of proprietary software

"Hidden in plain sight"? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/...

The Sound Open Firmware project launches

mjthayer — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 07:17:29 +0000

I wonder whether this sort of thing will give the Linux on small systems people a boost.