A Dream Come True: Running Coreboot On A Modern, Retail Desktop Motherboard - Phoronix
Over the many years of covering Coreboot (going back to when it was called LinuxBIOS!) on Phoronix the selection of supported motherboards has been rather unfortunate especially over the last decade. If wanting to run Coreboot on a system today it basically means running a Google Chromebook, using an outdated server motherboard or old Lenovo ThinkPad that has seen a Coreboot port, or out of reach to most individuals are various server motherboards that are reference platforms or board designs from hyperscalers. But over the past several months the folks at the 3mdeb consulting firm have carried out a terrific feat: porting their "Dasharo" downstream of Coreboot to a modern and readily available Intel desktop motherboard. I've been trying this out and it has worked out surprisingly well. Here are my experiences and benchmarks of Coreboot/Dasharo on this Intel Alder Lake motherboard.
For the past number of months 3mdeb has been working on an open-source Coreboot port to the MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi DDR4 motherboard. They made remarkable progress and this month christened their 1.0 release for this Coreboot port under the Dasharo flag. Dasharo is 3mdeb's set of modules built around open-source BIOS/UEFI/firmware solutions.
