[xoroshiro]

Can someone explain simply what this means for projects like libreboot and coreboot? I'm always interested with this stuff and it's implications, but don't have the background to understand a lot of low level details. Is the verdict still the same or are we gaining ground? Last time I checked, purism was quite optimistic about it, but the libreboot website seemed really pessimistic about it.

[aaronmdjones]

I imagine coreboot might integrate this functionality or recommend that people using coreboot do so themselves, but libreboot won't, because the entire point of libreboot is to only use entirely free software and the ME firmware (even the stripped down version that obeys this disable bit) which is required to boot the machine is not free.