@amdt what CPU does it have? If it's a reasonably modern Intel, there is no way of getting away from the management engine.

@loke Coreboot’s documentation says that whilst the Ethernet controller is capable of running the management engine it’s not configured to do so (🔗 https://www.coreboot.org/Intel_Management_Engine), and the X60 laptops were the first to be supported by Libreboot (🔗 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Libreboot/ThinkPad_X60).

@amdt Libreboot still has to use the management engine blobs. No one knows what's inside that one.

@loke My understanding is that Libreboot has absolutely no support for the management engine, whilst Coreboot does. Am I missing something?

@amdt That is true, but on the other hand Libreboot can't be used on computers that were made after 2008 or something like that.

I did confuse Libreboot with Coreboot, which does support modern CPU's using the Intel blobs.

I'd like to use more modern computers, so Libreboot isn't really an option in my case.

@loke Yeah, it’s a shame that the benefit of more software freedom comes at such a large cost right now. I’ll probably stick with my modern computer for now.