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Mainboards supported by coreboot

manfre 4y ago
I really dislike when links are to a blog post or page that doesn't have a way of navigating to the main site. Needing to manually modify the URL is enough of an annoyance on mobile that I'm more likely to bounce.
- DANmode 4y ago
  coreboot.org
squarefoot 4y ago
FYI, the script over at mrchromebox.tech used to liberate Chromebooks and Chromeboxes so they can host Linux and other OSes can also install Coreboot. I've used it on a good number of such machines without any problems. https://mrchromebox.tech https://mrchromebox.tech
- le-mark 4y ago
  I have used it too, it’s great, the maintainer is very active on Reddit supporting people seeking to dechrome their chromebooks.
- argondonor 4y ago
  I bought a Chromebook for $89 in 2014, and I still use it every single day thanks to this guy.
- qbasic_forever 4y ago
  I blew away the stock firmware on an old Acer 720P chromebook with mrchromebook.tech's coreboot and it's awesome running arch and XFCE or i3.
somat 4y ago
I have a few pcengine apu-2 routers and one of their most underrated features is that they use coreboot. It is hard to quantify exactly why this is nice, but I will try. I think it is because you now have a situation where because the whole toolchain is public there can be no magic in it. so the firmware and the flashing process feels more solid and predictable than most other firmware. specificly, I run openbsd on mine and flashrom has no problem updating the firmware[1]. a very unsupported configuration. I will probably never need to build my own firmware but I really like knowing that I could. 1. The trick to flashing firmware on openbsd is understanding that openbsd as part of it's normal boot shuts off a lot of memory access(sysctl kern.securelevel). so the easiest way is boot into single user mode so flashrom can write to the correct memory addresses.
- woleium 4y ago
  I used to use openbsd on my apu-2, but since I upgraded to a gigabit wan connection I had to move to Linux as I just couldn't make it do line speed gigabit :(( Did you have any success?
  - _0xdd 4y ago
    I usually max out at ~700 mbps running the latest version of OpenBSD. A trade-off I'm willing to take, but others may not.
- peter_d_sherman 4y ago
  >1. The trick to flashing firmware on openbsd is understanding that openbsd as part of it's normal boot shuts off a lot of memory access(sysctl kern.securelevel). so the easiest way is boot into single user mode so flashrom can write to the correct memory addresses. This is an excellent point! Flashrom + runlevel 1 in most linux/unix'es = best chance to read/write BIOS/(U)EFI ((E)EP)ROM/flash... Also, +1 for OpenBSD.
thomastjeffery 4y ago
It would be really helpful for takes like this to have a date column.

I really dislike when links are to a blog post or page that doesn't have a way of navigating to the main site. Needing to manually modify the URL is enough of an annoyance on mobile that I'm more likely to bounce.

DANmode 4y ago
coreboot.org

squarefoot 4y ago

FYI, the script over at mrchromebox.tech used to liberate Chromebooks and Chromeboxes so they can host Linux and other OSes can also install Coreboot. I've used it on a good number of such machines without any problems. https://mrchromebox.tech https://mrchromebox.tech

le-mark 4y ago
I have used it too, it’s great, the maintainer is very active on Reddit supporting people seeking to dechrome their chromebooks.
argondonor 4y ago
I bought a Chromebook for $89 in 2014, and I still use it every single day thanks to this guy.
qbasic_forever 4y ago
I blew away the stock firmware on an old Acer 720P chromebook with mrchromebook.tech's coreboot and it's awesome running arch and XFCE or i3.

somat 4y ago

I have a few pcengine apu-2 routers and one of their most underrated features is that they use coreboot. It is hard to quantify exactly why this is nice, but I will try. I think it is because you now have a situation where because the whole toolchain is public there can be no magic in it. so the firmware and the flashing process feels more solid and predictable than most other firmware. specificly, I run openbsd on mine and flashrom has no problem updating the firmware[1]. a very unsupported configuration. I will probably never need to build my own firmware but I really like knowing that I could. 1. The trick to flashing firmware on openbsd is understanding that openbsd as part of it's normal boot shuts off a lot of memory access(sysctl kern.securelevel). so the easiest way is boot into single user mode so flashrom can write to the correct memory addresses.

woleium 4y ago
I used to use openbsd on my apu-2, but since I upgraded to a gigabit wan connection I had to move to Linux as I just couldn't make it do line speed gigabit :(( Did you have any success?
- _0xdd 4y ago
  I usually max out at ~700 mbps running the latest version of OpenBSD. A trade-off I'm willing to take, but others may not.
peter_d_sherman 4y ago
>1. The trick to flashing firmware on openbsd is understanding that openbsd as part of it's normal boot shuts off a lot of memory access(sysctl kern.securelevel). so the easiest way is boot into single user mode so flashrom can write to the correct memory addresses. This is an excellent point! Flashrom + runlevel 1 in most linux/unix'es = best chance to read/write BIOS/(U)EFI ((E)EP)ROM/flash... Also, +1 for OpenBSD.

thomastjeffery 4y ago

It would be really helpful for takes like this to have a date column.