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On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Bill Kontos <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 4:57 AM, Christopher Havel > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Forgive a top-post, please, Luke - I'm on my phone. >> >> Coreboot, IIRC, is a replacement for BIOS/UEFI. So if you have the original >> system's motherboard intact - in which case you cannot drop in the chip you >> want to drop in - you can replace the contents of what is essentially the >> boot ROM chip with coreboot. That's as far as that goes... >> > > Ok so it doesn't really do that much on it's own. Got it, thanks. I > was thinking more along the lines of old thinkpads which have a decent > amount of reverse engineering done to them. Even the x230 has the > keyboard layout reverse engineered by a sysadmin who wanted to soehorn > the old 7 row on it. it's just not worth it and drives up the price of the second-hand thinkpads, and pisses everyone off who is selling them to libre conscious people as they can't make a business case for even bothering to buy and convert them to libreboot. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
