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expand other.md but shorten the intro 

also mention u-boot, tf-a

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@ -31,38 +31,11 @@ but most non-technical users should probably use a coreboot distro.
It's thanks to the various coreboot distros that many people use coreboot today; It's thanks to the various coreboot distros that many people use coreboot today;
without them, many otherwise non-technical users might not use coreboot at all. without them, many otherwise non-technical users might not use coreboot at all.
Why list other distros?
-----------------------
Over the years, several other coreboot distros have come and gone. It has been
decided that this page will be written, to document some of them. Not every
distro is listed; only those of high quality, or otherwise of interest, will
be listed. Quality over quantity.
Libreboot tries to support as much hardware as possible, and focuses on providing
the easiest possible experience for non-technical users; it's also
highly [configurable](docs/maintain/) for power users.
Several other projects exist that target different kinds of users, and support
different types of hardware; for example, Libreboot mostly doesn't target
Chromebooks, except for a few.
Libreboot's main priority is to provide users with free/opensource boot
firmware, to help more users achieve a higher level
of [software freedom](https://writefreesoftware.org/learn). Well, Libreboot is
one of the most well-known coreboot distros out there, so it is our duty to
therefore cover the other projects, because it may be that Libreboot isn't for
you; these other projects may support features and mainboards that Libreboot
doesn't, that you may find preferable.
We in the Libreboot project greatly admire and respect the other distros, and
will gladly work with them.
Without further ado,
List of coreboot distros List of coreboot distros
======================== ========================
In alphabetical order: Not all distros are listed; only those of high quality or otherwise of interest;
quality, not quantity. In alphabetical order:
Canoeboot Canoeboot
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@ -271,3 +244,30 @@ upstreamed into the regular coreboot project.
System76 provides the coreboot firmware, along with EDK2 UEFI payload. It can System76 provides the coreboot firmware, along with EDK2 UEFI payload. It can
boot Linux distros, BSD systems and even Windows perfectly. boot Linux distros, BSD systems and even Windows perfectly.
Is your distro unlisted?
========================
Please get in touch! We'd love to link your project here.
The coreboot project also maintains its own list of coreboot distros:
<https://coreboot.org/users.html>
Libreboot maintains its own list, because it is felt that distros should also
link to each other, since many people who find coreboot for the first time may
find it through a distro (such as Libreboot) and not check coreboot's own
website. We in the Libreboot project wish to see everyone using free boot
firmware, which was the primary motivation behind this page, in promoting the
various projects.
Non-coreboot free firmware
==========================
Several other projects besides coreboot provide free hardware initialisation,
such as [U-Boot](https://www.u-boot.org/) (as own firmware, distinct from U-Boot
as a coreboot payload), [Trusted Firmware](https://www.trustedfirmware.org/) and
so on.
We would like to list various distros of these too. If you know of a cool
project, please get in touch with the Libreboot project!