[coreboot] coreboot for a high end HP laptop ?

[Linuxguy123]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 08:20 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 08:58 -0400, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> >> What are the chances of running coreboot on an HP hdx9494 laptop ?
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > One other thing about this laptop... one can flash the BIOS from the
> > machine itself.  Does that make loading/testing coreboot harder or
> > easier ?
> >


Thanks for replying.

> you are going to have to deal with intel. I doubt they will like your reason :-)

What do you mean by that ?

> Question: what is the business case from the HP and intel viewpoint?
> Why do they care?

Of course, they don't.  I am doing this for myself.  Is there something
proprietary about my laptop that I need to know to install the BIOS ?

LG