>>345
https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/e6400.html
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/e6400.html
its all on libreboot.org, and DO read the general spi flashing guide so you know what to do, but you dont need that for internal flashing
>>346
just wipe it before installing libreboot, youll need GNU for that anyway
>>347
its sustainable for the next 20 years, computers dont even do anything new other than AI shit and modern AAA games, the only thing that changed is that UIs became uglier, laggier, and more demanding for no reason
>RISC-V
have fun with gentoo or cuckBSD, also RISC-V is more for microcontrollers and embedded computing than for desktop usage, its basically mini ARM, it literally means reduced instruction set, aka a stripped down architecture with shit you probably dont need thrown out
>>348
etcher is electroon malware, IMAGINE having to download 200 megs of bloat just to copy data LMAO
dd is 76K in size, but soydevs need 200 megs to do the same thing somehow
(for wintoddlers, rufus works)
>>349
seabios will probably boot winkike, but you should get a bootable usb drive ready before doing anything else, since winkike is not reliable, especially if you fuck around with firmware
i have heard that the winkike installer doesnt boot with libreboot, or only partially works
installed winkike boots in safe/fallback mode at least, afaik
>>351
you need flashrom, or external flashing works too if you have a raspberry pi, ch341a, arduino, or something similar that can flash bios chips
you just have to open up your machine and wire up a clip to your BIOS chip, you do this with thinkpads because they are IME cucked and need external flashing if you remove it for the first time
after installing libreboot you can flash internally of course
>>352
also that, i said once you got used to freedom, libreboot is just nice to have if you wanna get rid of glowniggers for good, and dont throw blobs into your kernel either.
your latitude can run without blobs, which is a good thing, so no, you dont need a kernel that is 40% bigger and just contains blobs
go install linux-libre or compile your own kernel if you want