On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy123@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 08:20 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy123@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 08:58 -0400, Linuxguy123 wrote:
What are the chances of running coreboot on an HP hdx9494 laptop ?
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One other thing about this laptop... one can flash the BIOS from the machine itself. Does that make loading/testing coreboot harder or easier ?
Thanks for replying.
you are going to have to deal with intel. I doubt they will like your reason :-)
What do you mean by that ?
Question: what is the business case from the HP and intel viewpoint? Why do they care?
Of course, they don't. I am doing this for myself. Is there something proprietary about my laptop that I need to know to install the BIOS ?
You'll need to know a lot of thing to *first* port coreboot to this new motherboard (a port to a possibly new northbridge & southbridge) which will all need proper free documentation. Then you'll need a way to recover from development glitches such as having flashed a non-working bios... And for a laptop, you better have some good soldering skills at hand.