I believe it's strictly harder than making a desktop computer with an
AMD processor and fully free coreboot.  This is possible if not having
graphics, while it needs removing e.g. CPU microcode updates, IMC
firmware, SMU firmware, XHCI firmware, etc (this removes features and
adds bugs).

Graphics needs including and running nonfree VGA BIOS or replacing
AtomBIOS with free code (no one did it, it might be hard and is
board-specific, there is also no 3d without harder reverse engineering
and replacement of its microcode; NVIDIA GPUs too have VGA BIOS, I don't
know what's needed to replace it), or getting a PCI-E VIA GPU with no 3d
acceleration supported (which includes a VGA BIOS which isn't needed for
coreboot nor kernel or X drivers).

Laptops might be harder.  I'm personally more optimistic about ARM,
while all ARM laptops that I know about have bootloader blobs and
nonfree wifi firmware.

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