[nmglug] Approved coreboot AMD mobo

[Satsangat Khalsa]

I guess we can only hope that he gets back to this soon or picks up some
collaborators.
There were tow mini-ITX boards by AMD on the list; maybe, someone will put
one of those in a nettbook


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Sam Noble <s at mnoble.net> wrote:

> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:08:07PM -0600, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
> >       I hope y'all can read this
>
> Hi Satsangat,
>
> I just see one line of a spreadsheet? It appears to be the entry for the
>
> HP Pavilion found here:
> http://coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#Laptops
>
> So this might be a interesting link :
> http://www.coreboot.org/Board:hp/pavilion_m6_1035dx
>
> Which puts the lie in what I said last night wrt "no amd laptops with
> coreboot support yet" I've been disregarding this one as the coreboot
> dev that did this port, Alex Gagniuc, has stated that he didn't
> necessarily recommend anyone use this laptop, it's just something that
> he had already (or bought cheaply?, I forget now) and he did this port
> as a warm-up for some AMD laptop that the coreboot devs hope to settle
> on as a high quality machine that can get something like "long term
> support" Also he's joined the military and is off in bootcamp or some
> such for a few months.
>
> But the direness of how vanishingly few devices are likely to even
> approach "secure" (In this era when US taxpayers have funded our own
> home-grown Advanced Persistent Threat.) makes me want to rethink that
> and go troll ebay :)
>
> http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2014-March/077761.html :
> "My motivation for doing this is not to get coreboot to run on this
> laptop. The laptop itself is poorly constructed. I do, however, want to
> lay the groundwork for the LTS laptop everyone's been talking about."
>
> --
> sam
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