[coreboot] Well supported energy efficient HTPC motherboard

2013-07-22 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Hey all, from time to time I see the question pop up, which motherboard is recommended or what laptop is most recommended for coreboot. What I haven't seen is a suggestion for an energy efficient HTPC. While one would expect an arm box for this, I still fail to see really well supported

Re: [coreboot] Well supported energy efficient HTPC motherboard

2013-07-22 Thread Oliver Schinagl
On 22-07-13 10:47, David Hubbard wrote: Hi Oliver, By hold those the recommendations -- did you mean, do those hold the number one position as a recommendation ? Can you clarify this question? Get this board and it works really well! ;) On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Oliver Schinagl

Re: [coreboot] Well supported energy efficient HTPC motherboard

2013-07-22 Thread David Hubbard
Hi Oliver, Ouch, those are pretty big numbers. I was acking towards the Asus F2A85 aswell but will probably look at a very power efficient APU variant. Don't they come in 65W TDP's? Granted these tdp's are including a GPU. Keep in mind I'm measuring at the wall. TDP is the rating just for the

Re: [coreboot] Well supported energy efficient HTPC motherboard

2013-07-22 Thread David Hubbard
A more efficient PSU might save a few watts. Just a thought. -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Well supported energy efficient HTPC motherboard

2013-07-22 Thread Oliver Schinagl
On 22-07-13 12:23, David Hubbard wrote: Hi Oliver, Ouch, those are pretty big numbers. I was acking towards the Asus F2A85 aswell but will probably look at a very power efficient APU variant. Don't they come in 65W TDP's? Granted these tdp's are including a GPU. Keep in mind

[coreboot] Samsung 550 Chromebook own Coreboot

2013-07-22 Thread John Lewis
Hey Guys, Thanks to some pointers that Ron Minnich gave me a few weeks back, I've been able to debrick my Samsung 550 Chromebook. However, during the time I waited for my Bus Pirate I started thinking it might be nice to build my own Coreboot, with a SeaBIOS payload. Now I have a build, but

Re: [coreboot] Samsung 550 Chromebook own Coreboot

2013-07-22 Thread ron minnich
you need a vga bios for now. You must have the ME firmware. Try this: make menuconfig go to general setup enable the 'third party binaries' menu item (or whatever it's called) they should now get downloaded automagically. Do a cbfstool build/coreboot.rom print before and after this step, and

Re: [coreboot] Supported laptops (again), treacherous computing

2013-07-22 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli gnu...@no-log.org wrote: It is at least a licensing problem: That microcode has a proprietary license in its header, with some terms that are incompatible with the GPLv2... And coreboot is released under the GPLv2. Given the effort

Re: [coreboot] Supported laptops (again), treacherous computing

2013-07-22 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:14:22 -0700 ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see how excluding the new, fixed version from coreboot helps anything. Further, it means you don't have bug-fixed microcode, which seems bad. It is at least a licensing problem: That microcode has a proprietary