Lenovo G505s to give for working on it
Hi, I was given a Lenovo G505s, but I would probably not have time to work on finishing to replace the nonfree software that is still needed for it. I was also given the opportunity to ship it to people interested in working on it. I've not looked into which exact hardware configuration it has, however as I understand, beside keeping it working in Coreboot, there are still some nonfree software that needs to be replaced: - There is a nonfree SMU firmware shipped as part of AGESA. - There is one or two ATI GPU which requires the following nonfree software: - The ATOM BIOS tables: this is bytecode that is required by the Linux Radeon driver to initialize the GPU. That is part of the video option rom. - The video option rom. - The various nonfree firmware for the Radeon GPU. - I'm unsure about the status without the nonfree CPU microcode. - There was also some work to replace the nonfree code that runs on the embedded controller, but I don't know the status. The laptop is currently situated in the USA, and I come back to France on Sunday so there is unfortunately very few time for me to decide if it needs to be shipped from the USA or from France. Denis.
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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli