Is openuefi a thing? I cant find much on it. I would like to have firmware updates for motherboard that don’t have support. I have a x99 system that support stopped in 2018. It is 22 core system and good for my homelab. Ideally I can have more up to date firmware.
https://www.coreboot.org/downloads.html
This seems promising.
I’ve used MrChromebox firmware on an old Chromebook for years, no issues. Based on Coreboot.
There is pretty much only coreboot. You can pretty much forget about it though, it support few platforms outside chromebooks. Few ancient and very specific platforms.
There was fascinating engineering effort inside google → replacing uefi with minimal shim and using linux kernel directly to initialize hardware.
Idea was that most of the work uefi does can be done by kernel itself, and uefi implementation of these task is both closed source and extremely poor quality. So uefi is both redundant and security risk on top PSP/Intel ME and equivalents.
Basic intro for curious people:
