I own a T430 and T420. It seems there is not a strong motivation for doing the T430/T530 port. Unlike the T420/T520, the obvious benefit of coreboot is it can replace the sandy bridge CPU with an ivy bridge one. What are the explicit benefits that coreboot can bring to the T430/T530 except opensource/security?

-Unlock RAM speed and WIFI whitelist removel? There are already Modded BIOS for this

-Remove evil ME? Or improve the start time by some seconds? It seems there is hardly any significant performance improvement

2016-12-04 13:08 GMT+08:00 Iru Cai <mytbk920423@gmail.com>:

On 2016年12月04日 07:18, Nico Huber wrote:
> On 03.12.2016 01:46, Sam Kuper wrote:
>> On 02/12/2016, Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> The T430 seems to be unsupported.
>>> Also I guess, it would only be one or two days of work
>> One or two days of work for whom? E.g. did you have in mind a specific
>> person (if so, who?), or a non-specific person with a specific skill
>> set (if so, which skill set?)?
> Well, it's a really rough estimate to be honest. I'd say one day for
> somebody who already did a Sandy/Ivy Bridge ThinkPad port. Two days
> for somebody who knows his way around Intel boards in coreboot. Maybe
> it can also be done in two days with autoport and asking questions in
> IRC (by somebody coreboot experienced who is skilled in C).

I guess maybe a "Clone of: lenovo/t530" is enough.

>
> This doesn't account for hardware access (flashing, debugging) ofc.
>
> Nico
>
>

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