On 2019-03-23 19:03, jrsmi...@gmail.com wrote: > Spent several hours yesterday trying to track down what I would need > to do to install coreboot on all of my computers, starting with my > Qubes box: a Levnovo Thinkpad T480. > > The bottom line from what I can tell is that if you have an Intel CPU > made since 2008 (any that have Boot Guard) or an AMD CPU made since > 2013 (any that have PSP), you are out of luck. Libreboot spells this > out in their docs. I'm not sure if that is because of coreboot itself > or something specific to Libreboot. I was stuck by how they seemed > perfectly fine walling themselves off from the present and the future. > > I could find nothing indicating that anyone had even tried, much less > succeeded, in installing coreboot on a T480 and everything I did find > was for much older hardware. > > I read through the coreboot docs where they just wave their hands at > the end of the build process and say "now go flash". I also read > through the heads docs, which say more or less the same thing. > > Hackaday has an article on the horrors of installing coreboot on a > Toshiba laptop. Not only do they neglect to say which model they > used, at the end of the article they had it working. > > The gist is that the information that's out there is out of date, > incomplete, misleading, and sometimes just incompetent. > > I'm hoping that someone here has first-hand knowledge and can advise > me (and others who read this). > > Thanks, > John Smiley
I'd suggest visiting https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html to see if your box is compatible with coreboot. From what I can see, the T480 is not coreboot friendly. The coreboot web site generally is a very good starting point in establishing the how, what and when procedures for installing coreboot successfully. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/e4e04ba6dbc7a03a192e8ef1f724cd59%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
