[coreboot] Best Supported Laptop

Alex G. mr.nuke.me at gmail.com
Mon Jun 3 22:57:36 CEST 2013


On 06/03/2013 03:10 PM, Oliver Schinagl wrote:
> On 06/03/13 16:03, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:54:04 -0500
>> slhac tivist<slhactivist at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> >Which supported laptop is the most free?
>> The Lenovo X60.
> Strange that an Intel Part has the best support.
> 

I find the same thing depressing.

> When A) AMD officially supports coreboot

There really aren't that many laptops with AMD CPUs. I think that's the
root of the problem here.

> B) Intel requires closed blobs for certain chips for RAM init.
> 
Sandybridge and friends require it. The Lenovo x60 uses an older CPU and
chipset, and those don't require blobs, AFAIK.

Alex



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