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Theoretically possible: Yes. Likely: No. I doubt there is really enough demand for this type of thing. A board has to be added to the upstream coreboot before it will make its way to libreboot anyway. Thankfully though, the C201 itself has a micro-HDMI port. You could just libreboot the C201 then plug it into your TV via the micro-HDMI with the lid closed. You can probably get libreelec installed to the machine as well, since it seems to support the SoC. Fail that, just install a simple linux distro (maybe alpine) and then put kodi on top of that.

In the end though, I would go with u/El_Dubious_Mung's suggestion. You'll almost certainly need nonfree codecs to have a useful setup which sort of defeats the purpose of libreboot. If you already have an old machine lying around though, you could do something really interesting.

Before proceeding, I would buy and use a SOIC16 test clip. You can get them for very cheap on Aliexpress, but if you don't want to wait for it to come in the mail (things often take a month to get to the U.S. from China), you can use Amazon. I flashed my X200 with this clip a couple weeks ago, and it worked beautifully. It comes in a couple days if you have prime. If you have any more questions, please ask, as the process is still fresh in my head.

You should be able to upgrade the hard drive. As long as the SSD is a sata, libreboot should see it just fine. So look for a sata ssd with a 2.5" form factor. Here is a blog that discusses upgrading a t400

http://www.zdnet.com/article/upgrading-my-laptop-to-ssd-disk-hands-on/

I think you're on the right track thinking that your router is the problem. Fortunately, your router is apparently supported by both openwrt and dd-wrt. These are both free software router firmware that I highly recommend.

If I were you, I'd flash openwrt onto your router. I personally have a FOSS modem and router and have set up a few for friends; so feel free to reach out if you have trouble.

It seems like the openwrt site is down right now for some reason, but I found the page for your router on the wayback machine.

Interesting, choosing an architecture that isn't widely deployed might not make it all too useful for everybody though. Apparently Debian 8.0 is going to support it so … https://www.debian.org/ports/ $4K makes it a very expensive hobby, seemingly targeting high profile users which then again might be sceptical of the manufacturing process. Hardware backdoors are a thing peeps!

According to tpearson from coreboot, amd-v is supported and IOMMU may be software rendered. I suggested him to run the tests from Qubes and report results https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/HCL/#generating-and-submitting-new-reports

Danke.

Since you're an a service provider/hoster and have to comply with German law, you will have to install SINA infrastructure https://posteo.de/blog/posteo-zur-m%C3%A4r-von-der-abh%C3%B6r-schnittstelle

Correct?

Will you be running Tor middlemen and exits?

resources/scripts/build/module/ich9utils is simply simply building the code. If the directory for it doesn't exist, it tries to download it, and then checks again. If a problem existed while downloading, it errors out. That script is what runs when you run ./build module ich9utils

You can simply download ich9utils directly, if you wish! Download from this clone:

https://notabug.org/libreboot/ich9utils

NOTE: there's only 1 commit, because it was actually forked from the old libreboot repository. It used to be hosted there (and still is, but I split it into a new repo), which is why there's only 1 commit. Check the old libreboot repo for a development history

Oh, ich9utils should also be present already, in the `src` archive from Libreboot 20210522, if you already downloaded that.

Libreboot is based mainly on coreboot, so you can just manually deblob it by yourself and install on it any payloads you want, i.e.: https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/src/master/resources/scripts/helpers/download/coreboot

>Which ThinkPad and CPU configuration would be best for moderate work in Fusion 360? I am currently looking at an X200 Tablet with a L9400. For this scenario, I am assuming that 8GB of RAM, and an SSD are already installed. I am also willing to

Thinkpads compatible with Libreboot don't match the minimum system requirements for this software. Also you'd have to assume that it'll crash often because it would be under high load all the time, see https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/issues/289

>purchase an external GPU dock to connect a desktop GPU, but I would prefer to have a mobile experience.

I can't comment on eGPUs and compatibility with Libreboot compatible laptops. I wonder where you would connect such a device, through the WWAN/WLAN mPCIe slots perhaps?

>I am aware the CPUs in the X models are soldered in place. Would it be worth it to consider another model (T500/W500) with an upgradable CPU or is the L9400 enough?

Depends on your use-case, money and time available. The CPU isn't the bottleneck for using CAD software esp. because installing a faster CPU for that socket won't make such a big difference.

The practical reason to do is to avoid system crashes which appear with Libreboot w/o mu updates: https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/issues/289

Ethically it's non-free software, it's not even open-source. So it's a black box.

Someone once explained to me that it would be hard to exploit horizontal microcode so the practical security implications would be negligible. I'm not claiming this is true. Perhaps someone can step in with more technical know-how on that matter.

On most post 2010 computers microcode is required to even boot successfully, so there's no way around that.

Hey ludblom,

first, get the source from notabug per git.

git clone https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/

there are 2 buildsystems. you may use oldbuild to get deps, but as you said it is made for trisquel, not debian.

You will miss some packages, f.e. mtools and dosfstools.

i made some hacks to make the oldbuild work on debian10, esp. removing -Werror from Makefiles and fixing freetype config for grub:

/usr/local/bin# cat freetype-config

#!/bin/sh
pkgconf "$@" freetype2

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Please first get the right sources.

rak

The server is down, use ping to see whether it's up again.

All resources, including website are still available over https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot and notabug.org is not affected in any way.

by the way "Get the full source code from metadata (git clone)" https://libreboot.org/docs/git/ should somewhere mention the notabug git repo url

$ git clone https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot.git

/u/GSlayerBrian , /u/skollrc and /u/ehraja : my friend qmastery has proposed the return of the "Libreboot Candidates" list with this pull request to libreboot - https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/pulls/581 - but unfortunately it has been rejected. It seems to me that the Libreboot leadership is not interested in getting librebooted more boards.

I would like to add my new findings to this thread. Basically read my last reply here: https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/issues/289

For me the problem were RAM modules.

I can restart from scratch but I've tried that already.

Look at what happens when GRUB starts: https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/src/master/resources/grub/config/menuentries/common.cfg#L4

When you run the 'Load Operating System' menu entry, GRUB asks you to decrypt the HDD and then runs a function called try_user_config which loads the config file (if it exists). That's why my config is not loaded immediately.

I can send you my config files, but could I ask to see yours? I want to know what your config is doing once GRUB loads it. here is my libreboot_grub.cfg https://pastebin.com/Vzvq5SNL