[coreboot] hackaton proposal in Paris

Hello, First of all, let me wish you, all the people involved in the Coreboot project hackers and enthusiasts, a great and happy New Year! Next, following some discussions I've had at the 28c3 event in Berlin, I would like to propose a coreboot hackaton at the 12,13 and 14 april in Paris. If

Re: [coreboot] hackaton proposal in Paris

OK, I have to check first some logistical details with the people who organize the Hackito Ergo Sum event and then I will open the doodle survey asap this WE. BR, Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: Rudolf Marek r.ma...@assembler.cz À: coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Tue, 10 Jan 2012

[coreboot] Re : Re: Big picture of recent ARM patches?

Hello Ron, You said : .. - we don't own the first two stages of firmware, they are binary blobs and one of them is in the mask rom but we have to deal with it, this is how things are going to be on most CPUs in coming years. .. My questions : MOST or ALL? Will this be true for x86 too?

[coreboot] Re : Re: BadBIOS Thoughts

NAIVE Why not a AMD system + coreboot?.. /NAIVE Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com À: Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com Cc: coreboot coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:57:26 +0100 (CET) Objet: Re: [coreboot] BadBIOS Thoughts I suspect people

[coreboot] Re : Re: BadBIOS Thoughts

Yet MANY peoples (and I'm one of them!) still WANT to know how their cars work (or motorbikes for instance..) and fix them themselves.. My 2 eurocents Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com À: Alex mr.nuke...@gmail.com Cc: coreboot coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé:

[coreboot] Re : Re: BadBIOS Thoughts

May Santa Claus hear you.. ;-) Really!.. ;-) Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: Oliver Schinagl oliver+l...@schinagl.nl À: coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:37:19 +0100 (CET) Objet: Re: [coreboot] BadBIOS Thoughts ... AMD should develop (e.g. get some ODM to supply it)

[coreboot] Re : Re: BadBIOS Thoughts

I vote for this!.. I for one, I will be ready to burn even more than 1k€, to get an AMD based chromebook. On the other hand we should be realistic : what if Google has agreements with Intel, forbiding them to even consider the use of AMD chipsets?.. Florentin - Mail d'origine - De:

[coreboot] Re : Re: Re : Re: BadBIOS Thoughts

- Mail d'origine - De: mrnuke mr.nuke...@gmail.com À: coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 10:47:56 +0100 (CET) Objet: Re: [coreboot] Re : Re: BadBIOS Thoughts ... Intel vs Google. Remember, Google has enough cash to buy Intel. ... Huh?!.. -- coreboot mailing list:

[coreboot] Re : Petition to Google: Please produce a midrange Chromebook

I endorse this petition, Best regards, Florentin Demetrescu - Mail d'origine - De: mrnuke mr.nuke...@gmail.com À: coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:57:35 +0100 (CET) Objet: [coreboot] Petition to Google: Please produce a midrange Chromebook We, the coreboot community,

[coreboot] Re : Re: AMD doesn't get it either in some ways (the bastards!!!)

- Mail d'origine - De: Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be À: mrnuke mr.nuke...@gmail.com Cc: ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com, coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 03:21:07 +0200 (CEST) Objet: Re: [coreboot] AMD doesn't get it either in some ways(the bastards!!!) On Fri, Apr

[coreboot] Re : Re: coreboot hackaton/meeting in Prague - september 2014 - date shift?

Hi Rudolf, Thank you for organizing this new hackaton and you can count me for shure among the attendees. As for the dates it doesnt matter for me.. Best regards, Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: Rudolf Marek r.ma...@assembler.cz À: ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com, David Hendricks

[coreboot] Re : Re: AMD PSP

TROLL So we can kiss goodbye coreboot on AMD platforms in the future?.. How sad! :-/ /TROLL Does this thing Platform Security Processor exist in any AMD CPUs buyable today (Q3 2014) or it will begin to be implemented later? Thank you for this information! Florentin - Mail d'origine -

[coreboot] Re : Re: for more working mainboards

Hello Ron, Could you be more speciffic about what is not doable today? (and why?) Sorry to be annoying.. Regards, Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com À: Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de Cc: coreboot coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:34:03

[coreboot] Re : Re: coreboot meeting this summer!

+1! (count me in) Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com À: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2...@gmx.net, coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:14:28 +0100 (CET) Objet: Re: [coreboot] coreboot meeting this summer! I think it would be

[coreboot] Re : Re: questions about google/samus

Sorry Ron, What is his crime? Thought crime?.. Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com À: Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net, Alexandru Gagniuc mr.nuke...@gmail.com Cc: Anthony Martin al...@pbrane.org, coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Fri, 13 Mar 2015

[coreboot] Re : Re: Re : Re: questions about google/samus

Ok Ron, We all recognise your efforts and don't deny that the question of the binary blobs is a very complex and politicaly hot one.. But (and I speak here from a STRICTLY personal point of view) it is the fashion you chose to lecture Paul than I found not very nice.. I sense a trace of elitism

[coreboot] Re : Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: questions about google/samus

So we don't have the right to even ask or wonder why is this so secret?.. Call me a moron but I don't find it justified to keep the memory initialisation code a very close secret. And I will not change my mind until I am presented with real arguments. (And this will never happen because this

[coreboot] coreboot @ CCC Camp 2015

Hi all, Quick question : does someone from the coreboot community plan to come to the Chaos Communication Camp 2015? For those too lazy to do a googling : the Chaos Communication Camp is an hacker event organised by the Chaos Computer Club in Germany and it takes place every 4 years. This year

[coreboot] Re : Re: coreboot @ CCC Camp 2015

Tank you Peter for trying to find some space for coreboot at CCC2015 (I remeber that you were involved in the organisation of OHM2013, is it also the case for CCC2015?) I hope that many corebooters could come at this event, it would be great to meet you again!.. Best regards, Florentin -

[coreboot] trouble ahead?

Hello, Sorry to fall in catastrophism again, but what do you think about that: http://www.kitguru.net/components/anton-shilov/microsoft-is-interested-to-buy-advanced-micro-devices-source/ Quite bad news for coreboot isnt it? :-/ Florentin -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

[coreboot] Re : Re: trouble ahead?

Depends .. if the big software company mentioned in the FA sees UEFI as *VERY* strategical for its business, what would be the point to be nice with a project that provides a competing solution of platform initialisation code?.. Now, on the other hand, I'm aware that they contribute to many

[coreboot] Re : Re: Dead links - missing information?

Hello, - Mail d'origine - De: Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com À: coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 01:42:59 +0200 (CEST) Objet: Re: [coreboot] Dead links - missing information? My hunch, from having managed and worked with EEs and programmers that are smarter than me -

Re: [coreboot] Re : FOSDEM deadlines now!

2 tables would be better (if this doesn't cost much more.. ;-)) Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger À: eche...@free.fr, coreboot , Paul Kocialkowski , flashrom

Re: [coreboot] G505s status (and test report)

Thank you Felix! And also I see that your tool fch_xhci_rom_dumper is on github, great!.. As for adding support for Bolton and refactoring and unifying the FCH code, I would like to pick up the task, because I want to invest myself in coreboot dev again and I hope that I will have some time to

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot hackaton 2016 (proposal in Paris)

Hello, I would like to remind everybody that there is a doodle about the organisation of the next coreboot meeting (hackaton) -> http://doodle.com/poll/6udccyrsqtqy2ndt I kindly ask you to answer this pool, because it will help me to determine the optimal time frame for this event. Even if you

[coreboot] Re : Re: Coreboot hackaton 2016 (proposal in Paris)

Oh, another thing : I just realized that I haven't selected the three choice configuration for this pool (yes, maybe yes, not), so I will interpret all the positive results as a "weak" yes (yes if needed..) - Mail d'origine - De: eche...@free.fr À: coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot hackaton 2016 (proposal in Paris)

update : this pool will be closed next Sunday october 15 at 23 PM - Mail d'origine - De: eche...@free.fr À: coreboot Envoyé: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 15:57:34 +0100 (CET) Objet: Re: [coreboot] Coreboot hackaton 2016 (proposal in Paris) Hello, I would like to remind

[coreboot] Some feedback regarding the coreboot hackaton poll

Hello all, First of all I want to reassure everbody who participated to the poll for the hackaton in Paris, that it is NOT canceled (in the light of the recent events..) and that I am more deternined than ever to make it happen!.. On the other hand, at the time when I launched this poll (maybe

[coreboot] Coreboot hackaton 2016 (proposal in Paris)

Dear coreboot friends, As discussed briefly in the last minutes of the Bonn meeting, I propose to organize the next coreboot hackaton in Paris in 2016. Here is my plan (in broad lines, to be refined subsequently): - the venue would be hosted by the Electrolab, the famous hackerspace in Paris

[coreboot] G505s status (and test report)

Hello all, I would like to present here a brief report of my first tests with coreboot on the G505s laptop. First of all I would like to thank Zaolin for his enormous help (which went even to hw hacking.. ;-)) and Paul Kocialkowski for his advices. In a nutshell : it MOSTLY works with a recent

[coreboot] Re : FOSDEM deadlines now!

+1 * for the stands count me in : I can bring my AMD boards and if all is going well I will be able to do demos on my G505s laptop. (I will also bring various electronic stuff and tools..) * for the main tracks I cannot help unfortunately * for the lightining traks I have some (bold!) ideeas

[coreboot] Item lost during coreboot conference in Bonn

Hello, During the coreboot meeting I lent a AMD CPU with socket AM2 to someone in the hacking room to do some tests. It seems to me that this item is missing in my packs. I think that the person which borrowed this CPU from me was sitting in front of me in the hacking room close to Vladimir

[coreboot] Re : Item lost during coreboot conference in Bonn

My bad! the cpu was inside his socket right onto the board!.. Please forget my request (I really need to have some sleep now!..) By the way, if you have old amd cpus (or apus) for sale, please let me know, i'm intersted. Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: eche...@free.fr À: Coreboot

[coreboot] Re : coreboot meeting 2015: SerialICE workshop?

+1! Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: Paul Menzel À: coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 22:09:57 +0200 (CEST) Objet: [coreboot] coreboot meeting 2015: SerialICE workshop? Dear coreboot folks, the coreboot meeting 2015 is taking place soon

[coreboot] hackaton in Berlin?

Hello, Last year when we discussed the possible locations for a hackaton in 2016, Berlin was proposed (by Peter) as a possible location in october 2016 if I remember well. Since then I'we seen no discussions about this proposal... Is it still relevant? Regards, Florentin Demetrescu PS (for

[coreboot] Re : Re: Is Goryachy's JTAG hack a chance for free firmware ?

Enrico, Do you know what is an HSM and how public-key cryptography works? Sorry for the sarcasm, but I can assure you that no-one without VERY HIGH security clearances from Intel would ever approach at less than 1 yard from an Intel HSM containing ME signing keys.. So for the jtag acess.

[coreboot] Hardware vendors offering systems with Intel ME disabled

Hello, First I apologize in advance for introducing some "off topic" noise in the coreboot mailing list, but I would like to point to you a story which was posted on slashdot 4 days ago :

[coreboot] Re : Re: Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode

Fascinating!! - Mail d'origine - De: Thomas Heijligen À: coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:16:30 +0100 (CET) Objet: Re: [coreboot] Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode For those who are interested in the Intel ME, the slides and white papers from

Re: [coreboot] POWER9 / Talos II coreboot support?

+1 Same for me, I would gladly help with the port of coreboot to Talos II (even if I am not a coreboot expert, I do have some background in firmware development..), but there are 2 problems : - the time : I will be able to spend my free time on coreboot development again only after june 2018;

[coreboot] AMD "pre-PSP" devices

(was [coreboot] Coreboot Purism BIOS is free? open?) Regarding the "AMD pre-PSP" devices, I have a very naive question : are some of them still in production or none of them? (i.e all one can buy nowadays are only "pre-owned" devices with a life expectancy far less than that of a new one..) What

Re: [coreboot] Re : Re: Coreboot Purism BIOS is free? open?

This is incredible! When I bought my PC, I bought my PC, NOT a service!!.. W!T!F! (sorry for being rude...) - Mail d'origine - De: Alberto Bursi À: eche...@free.fr Cc: coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 00:52:22 +0100 (CET) Objet: Re: Re : Re:

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot Purism BIOS is free? open?

No you didn't answer my question Peter, sorry!.. I am NOT questioning the "legitimacy" of ME/PSP (be it from a purely corporate/financial point of view..). (By the way I have no "legitimacy" myself to put this question of "legitimacy" to begin with..) I simply don't understand (and this is

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot Purism BIOS is free? open?

By the way you said : "ODMs/OEMs are the real customers of Intel/AMD" and "Intel/AMD serve them law" (which law???) I have a scoop : a friend of mine happened to work in the marketing department of a (very large) OEM, and speaking about ME he told me that Intel OBLIGED them to adopt and

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot Purism BIOS is free? open?

As a businessman what do you answer when in commercial meeting with Intel they tell you: "Okaye man, you got the HAP bit and obviously your users are happy with that.. Your products are great and are selling like no tomorrow and no user ever come back complaining that the ME "isn't completely

[coreboot] Re : Re: Coreboot Purism BIOS is free? open?

Thank you Alberto for the answers, but I was not questioning the ME "per-se". Anyway, if ME is required for platform initialization, why not stopping it after said "platform initialization"? Also you said "ARM provides TrustZone, which is something like Intel ME". Permit me to disagree :

[coreboot] Re : Intel ME vs. fascist regimes

Remember : is NOT fascism when the GOOD GUYS (TM) do it... ;-) - Mail d'origine - De: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult À: coreboot , d...@lists.dyne.org Envoyé: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:09:37 +0100 (CET) Objet: [coreboot] Intel ME vs. fascist regimes

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot Purism BIOS is free? open?

Yes Peter But what has Netflix (or Sony, or the entertainment industry in general...) to LEGALLY gain by strongarming Intel/AMD to keep ME/PSP activated on all x86 platforms (not only consumer ones!..)? (I can see other motivations.. but I keep the hypothesis that the entertainment industry

Re: [coreboot] Microcode updates for slightly older intel CPU's re: meltdown/spectre

Peter, To initiate this "discussion over beers, etc" (which I hope that we will have at this FOSDEM 2018...), can you give some factual "entry points" sustaining your sharp assertion "no, no we can't"? Thanx, Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: Peter Stuge À:

Re: [coreboot] Are multiple GPUs with lots of memory (ex: 8GB+8GB) supported in coreboot?

So .. what's the solution?.. Why this statement: ".. It's not a straight-forward solution to simply push all prefetchable BARs above 4GiB (that would be NICs and GFX too)..." ? From what I'm seeing this feature is not only usefull, it is essential.. (if we were to pretend always supporting

[coreboot] Re : Re: New user of KGPE-D16

FYI: https://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Opteron-6386-2-8GHz-16-Core-Socket-G34-CPU-OS6386YETGGHK-TQ1458-/112768599369? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-4-AMD-Opteron-6386-SE-2-8GHz-Sixteen-Core-OS6386YETGGHK-Processor/132477925722?hash=item1ed84cb95a:g:~6MAAOSw0W5aJN~t Regards, Florentin - Mail

[coreboot] Re : restrict SMI

Thank you Ron, Just curious, about who could be the originator of this "future OS requirement", but I guess that anyone can guess his identity.. ;-) Anyway is good to see that common sense prevails (SMM dies) .. finally .. but I fear that the "clients" that until now were dependent of this

Re: [coreboot] Intel GMA: Backlight brightness driver

(Sorry for hijacking the discussion..) I just peeked inside the pdf and tumbled upon the following statement (page4): "The latest reasoning for replacement of SMI is driven by a future OS requirement that restricts the use of SMI as a means to communicate with the system firmware." Can someone

[coreboot] Re : Re: BIOS/CoreBoot/UBOOT

- Mail d'origine - De: Peter Stuge À: coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:43:48 +0200 (CEST) Objet: Re: [coreboot] BIOS/CoreBoot/UBOOT ... > Most people who buy computers are happy, because controlling the computer > isn't as important as using the desktop,

[coreboot] Re : Re: Re : Re: BIOS/CoreBoot/UBOOT

It is the "IS FINE" that shocked (and saddened...) me - Mail d'origine - De: David Hendricks À: Florentin Demetrescu Cc: Peter Stuge , Coreboot Envoyé: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:09:54 +0200 (CEST) Objet: Re:

[coreboot] Re : Re: Re : Re: BIOS/CoreBoot/UBOOT

But I respect the opinions of Peter.. Florentin - Mail d'origine - De: eche...@free.fr À: David Hendricks Cc: Peter Stuge , Coreboot Envoyé: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:18:00 +0200 (CEST) Objet: [coreboot] Re : Re: Re : Re:

[coreboot] Re : Re: When does AMD release the fam15 spectre microcode updates?

Hello Rudolf, First thank your for finding these blobs and the hack to use them, and for testing and validating them. But please could you tell us what was the setup for your tests : - what was your hardware : cpu + mobo (chipset)? - what was your linux kernel version? Thank you beforehand.

[coreboot] Re : Re: Supported Motherboards

+1 Me too, I strongly support the point of view of Mike. Freedom, be it in software or hardware is not negotiable!.. But on the other hand the point of view of Nico is also very legitimate. Having had to deal in my professional life with legacy code which was badly written and unmaintained

[coreboot] Re: Does NSA contribute to Coreboot?

Welcome NSA! .. if you come with good intentions and all you commit is thoroughly documented and with very clean code .. Regards, Florentin PS : this is NOT a troll, this is my sincere thought.. - Mail d'origine - De: Anac À: coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 15:30:54

[coreboot] Re: Restoring the opensource AGESA boards takes just 1% of git reverts since their removal

Merci beaucoup! ;-) Florentin - Mail original - De: "Mike Banon" À: "coreboot" Envoyé: Samedi 2 Septembre 2023 00:03:01 Objet: [coreboot] Re: Restoring the opensource AGESA boards takes just 1% of git reverts since their removal Now coreboot 4.21 boots flawlessly on AMD Lenovo G505S