On Sun, Mar 01, 2026 at 06:05:54AM -0700, Antonio Russo wrote:
I can buy a lot more laptops, desktops, servers that works without non-free firmware today than I could 10 or 20 years ago.My current NV41 laptop is one example (although it is a couple of years old). I recently bought a Protectcli VP2440 to use as a firewall, and it is another example. My MSI Z790P desktop is another example.I looked up this motherboard because of what you said---I am in fact very interested in purchasing hardware that does not require non-free firmware. I went to the MSI page for that motherboard: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-Z790-P/support#bios I see the recent UEFI/BIOS there, but neither a claim that the firmware is free, nor a download link to the source. Where is the free firmware for this board?
Unless this is bait, you need to understand that in the eyes of the FSF-aligned people this is a wrong question that misunderstands their claim. Their claim is that you don't need to put non-free blobs into your /lib to use your Linux on this hardware, nothing more.
"does not require non-free firmware" is different from "has free firmware" -- WBR, wRAR
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