[coreboot] greetings and laptop questions

[Duncan]

Hi,

I am not aware of a Coreboot port for the W530. Do you have any more
information?

Best,
Duncan

Taiidan at gmx.com:
> On 10/08/2017 11:06 AM, Jim Hendrick wrote:
> 
>> Just subscribed - I will mostly "lurk" but I do have a few questions for
>> the group.
>>
>> I am looking at a new laptop, and one of my options is a Dell Precision
>> 7510 (I like the quad-core and loads of RAM available) but I would
>> like to
>> not use a vendor BIOS.
>>
>> Has anyone put coreboot on one of these?
> Assuming there is no hardware code signing enforcement anti-feature
> ("boot guard") for the firmware enabled you would have to port coreboot
> to it, this would take around 6 months for a skilled firmware engineer.
>> Anyone tried and failed?
>>
>> Any recommendations for something similar (a good laptop ~15 in.
>> quad-core,
>> 32GB RAM and fast SSD storage)?
>> I will be running multiple virtual machines - hence the RAM and cores...
> W530, supports open source hardware init coreboot and me cleaner.
> Buy one, install your own SSD, RAM upgrade and W520 keyboard/armrest if
> you don't like the chiclet layout.
> 
> Alternatively you could get a G505S (owner controlled) if you don't want
> ME/PSP - but that only supports 16GB RAM.
>> (I also am looking at system76 and Purism but I am bit leery of
>> spending a
>> lot with a small / new company - comments appreciated)
> Purism dishonestly markets their products - while they claim that their
> laptops "respect freedom and privacy" their version of coreboot is
> nothing more than a wrapper layer for intel FSP (binary blob that does
> all the hardware init) which is next to pointless for the amount of
> money you would spend on one as all it does is move trust from vendor to
> OEM not avoiding the hypothetical OEM firmware backdoors.
> 
> System76 is a fine choice if all you want is a laptop that runs linux
> without difficulty.
>