Hi,
As documented at https://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x230#Proprietary_components.27_status and verified by my recent tests, anyone running GRUB on the harddrive or Windows, needs an extracted VGA bios binary on the X230.
This is identical for all X230 models. There have been vga bios binaries in the blobs repo in the past, so why not put this in?
Is there a place inside blobs, the coreboot build can pick it up from, automatically? I guess a new config option would be needed here, but I'm not entirely sure.
Unfortunately I haven't yet found a license applying to it. I'm thankful for hints.
thanks,
martin
Martin Kepplinger wrote:
Unfortunately I haven't yet found a license applying to it. I'm thankful for hints.
I don't think it's possible to acquire the VGA BIOS standalone under a license permitting redistribution. I think only IBVs may redistribute as part of their products, and of course only according to their NDAs with Intel.
If the file is somewhere on the internet that's great. If the host seems stable maybe some automation to pull it into the build could be added (with proper checksum), but I'd forget about storing it on coreboot.org.
//Peter
Peter is right. Unless you get a clear statement from the owner of the VGA BIOS you can't put it in the repo.
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 3:17 PM Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se wrote:
Martin Kepplinger wrote:
Unfortunately I haven't yet found a license applying to it. I'm thankful for hints.
I don't think it's possible to acquire the VGA BIOS standalone under a license permitting redistribution. I think only IBVs may redistribute as part of their products, and of course only according to their NDAs with Intel.
If the file is somewhere on the internet that's great. If the host seems stable maybe some automation to pull it into the build could be added (with proper checksum), but I'd forget about storing it on coreboot.org.
//Peter
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