Re: [Trisquel-users] How to know your BIOS name and version?
Interesting story, I understand better. Indeed, you're running coreboot version 4.6-2030-g3ce678367c, latest stable coreboot release is 4.8.1 and we are heading really soon (in a couple of weeks) to 4.9 release. Some of his points are valid, Libreboot project is in a "freeze state" for years, there is barely activity on the project. (Just look at the open bugs..) Still, the "safer" argument is not a good one. Libreboot uses deblobbed coreboot code, which is freedom-wise much better. In some cases though, you might want to use coreboot instead of libreboot. Some boards received updates and various fixes Libreboot don't have. (as it uses old 4.5 code) If your T500 was working fine with Libreboot (even if code is older), there was no point to use coreboot. I flashed a customized 4.8.1 on a T500 for a friend and there are only tiny improvement with boot time for example and some other stuff, but nothing critical. (security-wise) From my point of view, if everything is working fine with the current 4.6 rom, no need to update.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to know your BIOS name and version?
This is why I'm think I'm running coreboot: - dmidecode 3.0 Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs. SMBIOS 2.7 present. 8 structures occupying 406 bytes. Table at 0x7FB13020. Handle 0x, DMI type 0, 24 bytes BIOS Information Vendor: coreboot Version: CBET4000 4.6-2030-g3ce678367c-dirty Release Date: 11/07/2017 ROM Size: 8192 kB Characteristics: PCI is supported PC Card (PCMCIA) is supported BIOS is upgradeable Selectable boot is supported ACPI is supported Targeted content distribution is supported BIOS Revision: 4.0 Firmware Revision: 0.0 - The laptop came with libreboot, as I ordered back then. But later the salesman I bought it from rethought his position about libreboot: coreboot comes with new updates every six months and he thought of libreboot as a "dead project", not expecting new updates as the maintainer is busy with personal occupations, so in his opinion coreboot would be the safer choice. So he grabbed my laptop on a Linux event and said he would provide a necessary update for free. He unpacked some hardware and went his way in some corner while I was having coffee and talked with a fellow Dutch Free Software enthusiast. Later the laptop salesman went out of business so I'm now on my own.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to know your BIOS name and version?
It's a Lenovo Thinkpad T500.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to know your BIOS name and version?
With "did everything" I mean that I followed all the steps on that page. I'm trying to update the coreboot on my Trisquel laptop.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to know your BIOS name and version?
Thank you. Because of the output of this I wanted to update coreboot and did everything in the "rookie guide lesson 1" [1], restarted, and there was still the same output in $sudo dmidecode | less. They have no regular forum, just a bug tracker. Does anybody have a clue? [1] https://doc.coreboot.org/lessons/lesson1.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to know your BIOS name and version?
sudo dmidecode | less
