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title: Donate to Libreboot
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Introduction
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Donate money to the Libreboot project. Your money will be used
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to fund development and pay people who work on these projects. Some of the money
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received will be donated to the
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[Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/).
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I, Leah Rowe, am founder of Libreboot. I am also the lead
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developer of Libreboot. I use whatever money is received to fund development;
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this also includes paying the other developers for their time on the project.
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Send money via Patreon
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Go here for information:
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<https://www.patreon.com/libreleah>
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You can contribute money there, using a number of payment options that Patreon
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supports.
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Send money via Bitcoin
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======================
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Send money to this bitcoin wallet:
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bc1qc7yz0e3uum5nwln08dr65zapqz7xrqhuk3aqm9
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This bitcoin wallet is owned and operated by Leah Rowe. This bitcoin address
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was last updated on 16 January 2021; keep an eye on this page in case this
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bitcoin address changes in the future.
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How will your money be used?
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I, Leah Rowe, am founder and lead developer of
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[Libreboot](https://libreboot.org/). I
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work with other developers too. This page is intended to raise money to financially
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assist such development on both Libreboot and osboot, both of which provide
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coreboot-based hardware initialization on supported machines.
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The word *donation* and *donate* may be used here, but legally speaking it is
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not a donation. You are simply sending money to Leah Rowe. I use whatever money
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is received to pay for development costs.
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My own work is focused on:
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* Adding new boards from coreboot whenever feasible
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* Experimenting with coreboot payloads; for years I've preferred GNU GRUB,
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but lately I've been experimenting more with SeaBIOS, Tianocore and linuxboot,
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the latter of which is not yet present in osboot and Tianocore/linuxboot
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are both currently absent in Libreboot but will be added. For ARM (rockchip
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and so on) I've been experimenting with UBoot; ARM support is quite weak
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in Libreboot, so this is something that I was to improve.
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* Providing excellent documentation, written for non-technical users (with
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developer documentation also provided, either in osboot/Libreboot or
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submitted upstream to projects such as coreboot)
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* Working on upstream projects such as coreboot and GRUB (bug fixes, mostly,
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though I myself added ThinkPad T400 support to coreboot many years ago and
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huge improvements were made to it by other people in that project. I've also
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commissioned work on new coreboot ports in the past, and paid for such work)
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* Work on the Libreboot and osboot build systems (lbmk and rbmk, not paper)
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* Generally running the project, coordinating development and handling releases
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* I also provide user support on IRC
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TODO: COREBOOT FORK
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Fork coreboot. For years, Libreboot has simply applied deblob scripts on the
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upstream coreboot repository, but this is no longer feasible; coreboot has
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deleted many boards over the years, and maintaining these scripts has become
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much harder because multiple coreboot revisions have to be used.
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So, on the agenda is this: fork coreboot, and re-add those deleted boards.
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Maintain a proper fork of coreboot, while trying to stay as close to upstream
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as possible (to make development easier), while making decisions that are more
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optimal for Libreboot. Then Libreboot can use that fork, instead of deblobbing
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upstream.
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