Am Freitag, den 27.02.2015, 12:20 +0100 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger:
On 19.02.2015 00:14, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
The selection of target systems should include:
- at least one x86 laptop without an active ME (present but inactive
would be OK) 2. at least one x86 laptop which can boot x86-blob-free (except microcode) 3. at least one x86 board or laptop which needs neither blobs (except microcode) nor ME 4. at least one x86 board with reasonable (past or present) business market penetration 5. if the first two laptops use the same CPU vendor, a board using a different x86 CPU vendor [...] Please nominate machines (e.g. "Thinkpad T60 with Intel graphics") and tell me to which category they belong. If a system fits into multiple categories, please specify that as well. I will try to consolidate the recommendations and buy those machines. Once the system is up and running (hopefully in May), I will add more machines suggested by the community as time permits.
The time window for suggestions will close at the end of February.
So far I got the following nominations:
- asus f2a85-m (desktop board)
- tyan s8226 and/or supermicro h8scm and/or supermicro h8qgi (server board)
- Qemu and a couple of the boards supported by SimNOW (no category)
- Thinkpad T60 with ATI graphics (no ME, but with graphics blob)
Lenovo ThinkPad T60/X60 with Intel graphics also exist.
If you could get reference boards from AMD that might be also good.
Adlink cExpress-GFR and CM2-GF (lippert/toucan-af and lippert/frontrunner-af), jetway/nf81-t56n-lf might also be interesting.
Lenovo G505s as a “recent” AMD laptop should also be tested frequently.
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Thanks,
Paul