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Announcing coreboot 4.1
- DiabloD3 11y agoThis is absolutely great news. Now only if I could get Supermicro servers with coreboot by default, or some similar bare bones value brand...
- lfam 11y agoDepending on your needs, the network appliance type servers made by ADI Engineering for Netgate may be appropriate. http://store.netgate.com/ADI.aspx http://store.netgate.com/ADI.aspx https://github.com/ADIEngineering https://github.com/ADIEngineering I have NO affiliation with these companies. I'm simply happy that they are shipping Coreboot.
- voltagex_ 11y agoI really want to try out coreboot (and also BITS, but that's easier). What's the cheapest non-QEMU way to play with coreboot?
- yuhong 11y agoChromebooks, for one.
- sandGorgon 11y agothinkpads. the X200/X300, T430/T530 series are all fairly modern and cheap laptops that are supported on coreboot. Also Gluglug, that builds 100% free (as in freedom) laptops - http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/ http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/
- mrbill 11y agoI can't seem to find easy directions for putting it on an X201; got any suggestions?
- sandGorgon 11y agothese are the only two I could find : https://github.com/bibanon/Coreboot-ThinkPads/wiki/ThinkPad-X200 https://github.com/bibanon/Coreboot-ThinkPads/wiki/ThinkPad-... http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x201 http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x201 alternatively, do post in /r/thinkpad
- rwmj 11y agoI have an old X60s which I discovered only a few days ago is compatible and indeed well-supported by coreboot/libreboot. I intend to put it on there soon. You can pick up old X60s's on ebay for not very much money ($100 or so).
- mwcampbell 11y agoWhat is BITS in this context?
- agumonkey 11y agoGoogleguess "The Intel BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS)" http://biosbits.org/ http://biosbits.org/
- JoshTriplett 11y ago> I really want to try out coreboot (and also BITS, but that's easier). Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about BITS. (Or if you have fun playing with it.) It's a lot of fun to work on, and it's a lot of fun to talk with people who use it. > What's the cheapest non-QEMU way to play with coreboot? A Chromebook. You can replace the read-write BIOS safely, as the system is always completely recoverable via the read-only BIOS. If you want to be able to replace the read-only BIOS as well (by turning the write-protect screw), get a Servo debug board, and read the online instructions for adding a Servo debug port to your Chromebook board. (Those boards typically have the debug header, just not the connector.)
- voltagex_ 11y agoThanks Josh - I've pestered you about BITS in the past. I have way too many unfinished projects right now but it's on the list.
- motiejus 11y agoCoreboot has great documentation and community. I once "corebooted" my X60s with a picture of my family and contact details in case the laptop is lost. The laptop was never lost, but my wife loved the picture of the _very_ early boot stage. It's a great project from user's perspective: healthy community, very interesting, quick-reward project to play with. If you have a spare compatible thinkpad, I highly encourage you to try it out. :-) IIRC, there is a patch from me in coreboot -- it was so easy to prepare and submit one.
- keithpeter 11y agoI'm posting this from an X60 that runs gNewSense. I removed the wifi card to reduce the heat on the palm rest and to increase the friction to spending time on the Web instead of writing. I use a netgear USB wifi adaptor for when I want to use a connection. I'm reading the page at http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x60/Installation http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x60/Installation and wondering how hard it would be to put coreboot on this. I'm also wondering about suspend, the BIOS settings (ability to switch a core off and change power profiles &c). It would also be really cool to have a QR code display when the laptop boots. Have you done a write-up anywhere?
- pgeorgi 11y agoThere's http://libreboot.org/docs/install/index.html#flashrom_lenovobios http://libreboot.org/docs/install/index.html#flashrom_lenovo... Since you're using gNewSense, you may appreciate what libreboot is doing with coreboot (libreboot:coreboot ~ kernel-libre:kernel)
- ossreality 11y agoI know I'm hellbanned, whatever, but I'd love to know if anyone is pressing tianocore with coreboot and loading it onto a Chromebook Pixel. I'd really like to get a native UEFI boot on here rather than the SeaBIOS boot mechanism.
- bcg1 11y agoI use Libreboot (de-blobbed coreboot) every day, and I love it. My thinkpad x200 boots to graphical desktop login screen in seconds, and is super easy to reconfigure via Kconfig They even provide 'libpayload' for building your own boot payloads. Totally awesome. http://www.coreboot.org/Libpayload http://www.coreboot.org/Libpayload
- sandGorgon 11y agoIt's a shame that Coreboot is being actively killed by Intel and others. For example the new Thinkpads (and other laptops/desktops) with the Broadwell U/Y series have "Intel Boot Guard" which cryptographically prevents a replacement BIOS from being flashed onto the hardware [1] I truly wonder what is the long term strategic benefit from doing this ? Isnt the only way to compete against Apple is to open up more ? [1] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2015-February/079208.html http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2015-February/079...
- wmf 11y agoNumber of bad guys who want to flash malware into your BIOS [1] >> number of freedom fighters who want to flash Coreboot. IMO the solution is economic. If a PC vendor wanted to ship Coreboot I'm sure they would find a way to do it. But people buying Windows PCs and installing Linux are keeping the "native" Linux PC market unsustainably small. [1] http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/hacking-team-uses-uefi-bios-rootkit-to-keep-rcs-9-agent-in-target-systems/ http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/h...
- hajile 11y agoWhat are the number of reasons not to add a physical switch so you can if you want?
- CHY872 11y agoThis already exists for desktops (frequently a jumper to enable/disable BIOS flashing). For laptops this is bad by nature of their portability; they're too easy to tamper with.
- jsnell 11y agoIt'd add to the design, QA and manufacturing costs while only increasing the sales by a tiny amount. Given the miniscule margins of PC manufacturers, any increase in the cost would be a hard sell. An increase in the manufacturing cost of say $0.1 might seem totally insignificant when a laptop sells for $500. But when the profit margin on the laptop is $10, that extra widget just cut the profits down by 1%.