> You're right, but all computer's hardware and software is for x86-x64, > and Francis did the first step for it.
Thanks to other projects it's largely a trivial effort to build a distribution like Trisquel for ARM. This isn't to say it doesn't take time and effort too, but it is something we already know we can do, and is despite that still very important.
The bigger problems are free'ing various bits of code. If we can free the bootloader of an ARM machine which can be easy in many cases then we don't need libreboot. Bob (he works on libreCMC/libreWRT) has done it dozens of times. He's been doing it a very long time too.
It's great Francis free'd coreboot (for some models where this was possible). Most of the hard work was done already (the porting) except for one model which he had docs on (that made it easy relative to had he needed to reverse engineer it).
The reason Francis went with Lenovo is because he had no other better options. The work was largely done by the coreboot developers. They had other parties which financed these efforts and each of them was significant.
We don't build librecmc for routers for which the work isn't mostly done either- so don't make the assumption that I'm criticising or writing off the work of Francis. I'm merely speaking frankly.
Now all free'ing of coreboot code has a limited impact in the larger scheme of things for a variety of reasons including the limited number of machines which can be refurbished compared to manufacturing machines. The later can scale up. The former can't. If we want to see progress then we need to focus on the efforts which will let us scale up. If all we want to do is have a machine today that is more free- then fine. libreboot will work. It's a bit selfish and short-sighted- but hey- to each his own.
