Am Montag, den 24.03.2014, 22:36 -0700 schrieb David Hendricks:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:10 PM, mrnuke mr.nuke.me@gmail.com wrote:
Chose the hardware. Set up a github temporary fork. Send me the hardware. I got Pomona, I got SPI, I got USB debug, and I got the burning desire to make this happen.
I like your attitude. See if there's a laptop that looks doable in the ~$500 range, buy two of 'em, and tell me how to reimburse you.
Note: $$$ would come from my own pocket and has nothing to do with my employer.
David, thank you for that offer.
Vladimir also hinted in #coreboot, if the hardware would be given to him he *could* try a port (with no promises of course). He was on vacation, so I waited to bring this up on the list. I am sure more people would sponsor such an effort. The question is how to best do that, so people do not get problems with taxes and so on?
A Kickstarter/something similar campaign?
If at least Alex and Vladimir participate, we’d need two to four laptops, depending how critical a second model is to have for development.
Note 2: This might be a good place to start: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/188275/
The other question is to decide on a laptop. Only the HP Elitebooks seem to have a long shelf life, but these do not look like consumer products and look more to be for companies if I am not mistaken.
http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/hp-probook-6475b-b5u26aw-b6p75ea-a798418.... http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/hp-probook-655-g1-h5g82et-a1034671.html http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/hp-probook-455-g1-h6p57ea-a962206.html
I had my hands on a Asus U38N-C4010H which was very well manufactured in my opinion and a nice consumer laptop.
http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/asus-vivobook-u38n-c4010h-90ntia212n12925...
In the IRC channel #coreboot also the Lenovo X131e was mentioned. I have no idea what to make of that AMD E1-1200 processor.
http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/lenovo-thinkpad-x131e-3372-1a6-a998573.ht...
Thanks,
Paul