On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Linuxguy123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 08:20 -0700, ron minnich wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Linuxguy123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 08:58 -0400, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> >> What are the chances of running coreboot on an HP hdx9494 laptop ? >> > >> > <snip> >> > >> > One other thing about this laptop... one can flash the BIOS from the >> > machine itself. Does that make loading/testing coreboot harder or >> > easier ? >> > > > > Thanks for replying. > >> you are going to have to deal with intel. I doubt they will like your reason >> :-) > > What do you mean by that ? > >> Question: what is the business case from the HP and intel viewpoint? >> Why do they care? > > Of course, they don't. I am doing this for myself. Is there something > proprietary about my laptop that I need to know to install the BIOS ?
You'll need to know a lot of thing to *first* port coreboot to this new motherboard (a port to a possibly new northbridge & southbridge) which will all need proper free documentation. Then you'll need a way to recover from development glitches such as having flashed a non-working bios... And for a laptop, you better have some good soldering skills at hand. -- Vincent Legoll -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
