[adding coreboot mailing list to CC]
Am 29.06.2012 16:49 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
You do know that all Thinkpad T60/X60 can replace the BIOS with coreboot?
No, I didn't, that would be wonderful news. I see a few mentions of T60 support when googling for it, but nothing sufficiently clear to make me confident I would know how to flash it and I'd be able to assess whether I'm flashing the right firmware.
Admittedly the information about coreboot on a T60/X60 is spread around quite a bit: http://www.coreboot.org/Thinkpad_X60s has some status info http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2012-January/067959.html has some info on how to replace the BIOS on that machine with coreboot, but read the WHOLE thread because the linked mail had a few typos in the description.
Any pointers to information about it would be very welcome (e.g. which T60 are "supported" or at least expected to work?
AFAIK all T60/X60 variants work with coreboot. Sven Schnelle knows more, he is the one who ported coreboot to those thinkpads.
does flashrom work or do I need some hardware-mod?
You need a small flashrom patch and the bucts utility, no hardware mod needed.
how easily can I revert to the proprietary firmware if something (e.g. suspend) doesn't work quite right?)
You can simply reflash the original BIOS to the flash chip if you're running coreboot.
Regards, Carl-Daniel