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Isn't the 2015 Pixel laptop a good fit except for the limited storage ? I'm guessing that it supports coreboot out of the box, probably has all drivers upstream

Isn't the 2015 Pixel laptop a good fit except for the limited storage ? I'm guessing that it supports coreboot out of the box, probably has all drivers upstreamed, and has a great display. If there were a way to upgrade the storage, that would be the ideal laptop. Also, Google might release a new Pixel laptop this year too.

ploxiln 10y ago
I didn't know the Chromebook Pixels ran coreboot, that is indeed a very interesting option!
igravious 10y ago
It's not on this list: https://www.coreboot.org/Laptop https://www.coreboot.org/Laptop Does it even have a supported chipset?
- bubblethink 10y ago
  I'm pretty sure that both Pixel laptops run coreboot. This page says so: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/chromebook-pixel-2015 https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f... .I think Google is one of the major contributors to coreboot. I hope they release a full fledged laptop with expandable storage.
  - aeroevan 10y ago
    Can confirm, 2015 pixel is a great relatively linux friendly linux laptop running coreboot. Until recently the sound driver wasn't in the upstream kernel, but it is in 4.9 (but still isn't perfect). But everything else is great.
    - igravious 10y ago
      Awesome. 'Tis pricey tho'.
- ploxiln 10y ago
  see https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download/ https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download... for various coreboot for x86-chromebook builds
emidln 10y ago
I ended up RMAing 3 different 2015 pixels. The g+ group was filled with hardware issues (possibly an echo chamber; how many happy users were posting in hardware problems threads?). I really wanted the pixel to be a medium screen size with an i7 and 16gb of RAM, but it didn't stand up to being a daily driver for me. I can confirm that pixel does use coreboot and has a backup seabios (also open source) if you want to use that (ended up being slightly easier to run arch via seabios).
ethanmad 10y ago
You're right about everything except all drivers upstreamed. I don't know what is taking so long to get drivers upstreamed, but us samus users have our own patched kernel: https://github.com/Raphael/linux-samus https://github.com/Raphael/linux-samus.
- bubblethink 10y ago
  That's pretty bad. I thought Google was good with this sort of stuff. Is the delay caused because they were closed drivers, and had to be reverse engineered ?

ploxiln 10y ago

I didn't know the Chromebook Pixels ran coreboot, that is indeed a very interesting option!

igravious 10y ago

It's not on this list: https://www.coreboot.org/Laptop https://www.coreboot.org/Laptop Does it even have a supported chipset?

bubblethink 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that both Pixel laptops run coreboot. This page says so: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/chromebook-pixel-2015 https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f... .I think Google is one of the major contributors to coreboot. I hope they release a full fledged laptop with expandable storage.
- aeroevan 10y ago
  Can confirm, 2015 pixel is a great relatively linux friendly linux laptop running coreboot. Until recently the sound driver wasn't in the upstream kernel, but it is in 4.9 (but still isn't perfect). But everything else is great.
  - igravious 10y ago
    Awesome. 'Tis pricey tho'.
ploxiln 10y ago
see https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download/ https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download... for various coreboot for x86-chromebook builds

emidln 10y ago

I ended up RMAing 3 different 2015 pixels. The g+ group was filled with hardware issues (possibly an echo chamber; how many happy users were posting in hardware problems threads?). I really wanted the pixel to be a medium screen size with an i7 and 16gb of RAM, but it didn't stand up to being a daily driver for me. I can confirm that pixel does use coreboot and has a backup seabios (also open source) if you want to use that (ended up being slightly easier to run arch via seabios).

ethanmad 10y ago

You're right about everything except all drivers upstreamed. I don't know what is taking so long to get drivers upstreamed, but us samus users have our own patched kernel: https://github.com/Raphael/linux-samus https://github.com/Raphael/linux-samus.

bubblethink 10y ago
That's pretty bad. I thought Google was good with this sort of stuff. Is the delay caused because they were closed drivers, and had to be reverse engineered ?