Re: [coreboot] BadBIOS Thoughts

[Alex G.]

On 11/20/2013 09:23 AM, ron minnich wrote:
> I've got a student coming in January and he's going to work on
> ChromeOS on AMD CPUs, starting with the Gizmo. If, at that time,
> someone has a suggestion for an AMD laptop which might be suitable,
> let me know.

Would you care to elaborate on that?
As much as I hate HP, they do seem to have some of the best AMD-based
laptops. I would look at the ProBook 655 G1 / 645 G1 or the HP ProBook
6475b.

Alex

P.S. One fornicating annoying downside is that HP's firmware really
sucks. Suspend-and-not-crash-and-overheat (TM) is sometimes working,
while Resume-and-not-defecate (TM) seems to be slightly more reliable.

AMD laptop recommendation (was: BadBIOS Thoughts)

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Ron, dear Alex,

Am Mittwoch, den 20.11.2013, 12:19 -0600 schrieb Alex G.:
> On 11/20/2013 09:23 AM, ron minnich wrote:
> > I've got a student coming in January and he's going to work on
> > ChromeOS on AMD CPUs, starting with the Gizmo. If, at that time,
> > someone has a suggestion for an AMD laptop which might be suitable,
> > let me know.
>
> Would you care to elaborate on that?

Ron, could you please define, what you mean by »suitable«? Like easily
hackable to put coreboot on it?
> As much as I hate HP, they do seem to have some of the best AMD-based
> laptops. I would look at the ProBook 655 G1 / 645 G1 or the HP ProBook
> 6475b.

I got the Ultrabook Asus U38N-C4010H with the processor A8-4555M and the
chipset AMD A70M (Hudson M3). As it is an Ultrabook it looks pretty
nice, but the hardware is highly integrated and not easily accessible.
I’ll put Debian GNU/Linux on it now and keep you posted with further
information about the Linux support (useful for Chrome OS support) if
you are interested.

[…]

Thanks,

Paul

[1] https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/U38N/

AMD laptop recommendation (was: BadBIOS Thoughts)

[mrnuke]

On Wednesday, January 01, 2014 04:09:06 PM Paul Menzel wrote:
> I got the Ultrabook Asus U38N-C4010H with the processor A8-4555M and the
> chipset AMD A70M (Hudson M3). As it is an Ultrabook it looks pretty
> nice, but the hardware is highly integrated and not easily accessible.
> I’ll put Debian GNU/Linux on it now and keep you posted with further
> information about the Linux support (useful for Chrome OS support) if
> you are interested.

You only really need to get to the flash chip and a USB port, unless the flash 
is a TSOP, in which case, I'd call SOL.

Alex