Coreboot Is Set To Start Booting Laptops

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Posted by Michael Larabel on February 03, 2012 (phoronix)

This weekend in Brussels at FOSDEM along with many interesting X.Org discussions and laying out the plans for Wayland 1.0, the Coreboot project has an exciting announcement: showing off the first mainstream laptop with Coreboot support.

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This open-source BIOS re-implementation project will be showing off a laptop running Coreboot. arl-Daniel Hailfinger, the lead of the Coreboot project, is the one presenting this week at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. In the FOSDEM interview he also mentions, "There are rumors that a major company will ship affordable laptops with coreboot in spring/summer 2012, but that's not official yet."

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Of the supported hardware for Coreboot the only laptops with proper Coreboot support so far has been the Getac P470, Roda RK886EX, Lenovo X60s (Model 1703), and the Lenovo ThinkPad T60p. All of these supported notebooks have an Intel 945 chipset with ICH7 Southbridge, although AMD has been much more friendly to Coreboot and pledging their support of it with all future products.

There's also additional Coreboot laptop information on this Wiki page


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Posted by Michael Larabel on February 05, 2012

Don't Get Excited Over Coreboot Laptops Yet

Unfortunately there isn't much to get excited over yet when it comes to using Coreboot on laptops.

There was the Coreboot main track session today at FOSDEM 2012 about Coreboot support on laptops and other areas, but unfortunately, there isn't much to get excited about at this point.

While Coreboot has made much progress in providing a "free" BIOS / UEFI for modern systems (particularly those based upon new AMD hardware), there is still much work left to be accomplished. There was an expectation that at this FOSDEM event there would be a new laptop shown off running Coreboot with the expectation that a new vendor might be shipping this device with Coreboot this year.

There is the likelihood a vendor will be shipping a Coreboot laptop by this summer (around May), but it doesn't sound like it will be too exciting. .....................

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