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> It does not get firmware/bios updates Surprisingly this is not the case. The x200 can run coreboot and related forks like libreboot: https://www.coreboot.o

• joecool1029 5y ago
  >Surprisingly this is not the case. The x200 can run coreboot and related forks like libreboot: https://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x200 https://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x200 Yes, yes, BIOS is supported by third-party vendor. Still leaves the microcode problem. >That's a good point. The removal of 2g/3g made the modems in a lot of phones non-functional. Even without cell support a phone would still be useful as a small wifi tablet if it could run up-to-date software. That's not what I'm talking about. Some phones required a modem update to work around a bug caused by broadcasting a different LTE signalling message they couldn't handle. It would crash the phone's baseband. Similarly some security group like Google Project Zero could figure out vulnerabilities in the modem (maybe unprivileged code execution using specially crafted status messages or something of the like). This is the sort of thing you will not get updates for, and the updates you've received til now won't detail much because SoC vendors have all that shit under NDA.