Ladies and Gentlemen,
coreboot® is running on a multitude of different computers, ranging from tiny embedded systems as small as the palm of your hand over desktop and server systems to super computers with thousands of nodes. However, one might say that in the area of mobile computers coreboot has to catch up, compared to its support of other devices. Thus, I am especially glad to announce that coresystems GmbH is releasing coreboot® for the Roda RK886EX a.k.a Rocky III+ notebook today. It's a rugged notebook, protected against shock, vibration, dust and humidity: http://www.roda-computer.com/en/products/notebooks/rocky-iii-rk886ex.html
We have been testing various Linux distributions as well as Windows XP and Windows 7 booting on this nice notebook.
I want to sincerely thank those who made this project possible with their funding: - secunet Security Networks AG - Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnologie (Federal Office for Information Security, BSI)
A big thank you also goes to everyone who worked with coresystems on this project.
Best regards, Stefan Reinauer
Hi Stefan,
Absolutely awesome! Congratulations! This is really great news.
On 16.01.2010 20:09, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
I am especially glad to announce that coresystems GmbH is releasing coreboot® for the Roda RK886EX a.k.a Rocky III+ notebook today. It's a rugged notebook, protected against shock, vibration, dust and humidity: http://www.roda-computer.com/en/products/notebooks/rocky-iii-rk886ex.html
We have been testing various Linux distributions as well as Windows XP and Windows 7 booting on this nice notebook.
And full Windows/Linux support also means this is a device that can be used by non-technical people who do not know anything about coreboot. It also is a great vehicle to demonstrate to vendors how well coreboot can work.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
On 1/17/10 1:40 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Hi Stefan,
Absolutely awesome! Congratulations! This is really great news.
On 16.01.2010 20:09, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
I am especially glad to announce that coresystems GmbH is releasing coreboot® for the Roda RK886EX a.k.a Rocky III+ notebook today. It's a rugged notebook, protected against shock, vibration, dust and humidity: http://www.roda-computer.com/en/products/notebooks/rocky-iii-rk886ex.html
We have been testing various Linux distributions as well as Windows XP and Windows 7 booting on this nice notebook.
And full Windows/Linux support also means this is a device that can be used by non-technical people who do not know anything about coreboot. It also is a great vehicle to demonstrate to vendors how well coreboot can work.
I forgot to mention: Suspend To Ram works nicely with coreboot on the RK886EX, too - both with Linux and Windows. You have to use real mode option rom initialization or leave option roms to SeaBIOS for that purpose though; Due to their design, Yabel definitely won't work with S2R, x86emu without Yabel is untested. Otoh, if you want to use Yabel for it's advanced security over realmode initialization, S2R doesn't make much sense anyways.
Best regards, Stefan
On 01/16/2010 02:09 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
coreboot® is running on a multitude of different computers, ranging from tiny embedded systems as small as the palm of your hand over desktop and server systems to super computers with thousands of nodes. However, one might say that in the area of mobile computers coreboot has to catch up, compared to its support of other devices. Thus, I am especially glad to announce that coresystems GmbH is releasing coreboot® for the Roda RK886EX a.k.a Rocky III+ notebook today. It's a rugged notebook, protected against shock, vibration, dust and humidity: http://www.roda-computer.com/en/products/notebooks/rocky-iii-rk886ex.html
We have been testing various Linux distributions as well as Windows XP and Windows 7 booting on this nice notebook.
I want to sincerely thank those who made this project possible with their funding:
- secunet Security Networks AG
- Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnologie (Federal
Office for Information Security, BSI)
A big thank you also goes to everyone who worked with coresystems on this project.
Best regards, Stefan Reinauer
This is truly awesome Stefan! Great Work!
This could be the beginning of a coreboot laptop frenzy :-)
Wow, congratulation Stefan and to Coreboot of course.
I wonder how the embedded controller being handled in there ;-)
On 1/17/10, Joseph Smith joe@settoplinux.org wrote:
On 01/16/2010 02:09 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
coreboot® is running on a multitude of different computers, ranging from tiny embedded systems as small as the palm of your hand over desktop and server systems to super computers with thousands of nodes. However, one might say that in the area of mobile computers coreboot has to catch up, compared to its support of other devices. Thus, I am especially glad to announce that coresystems GmbH is releasing coreboot® for the Roda RK886EX a.k.a Rocky III+ notebook today. It's a rugged notebook, protected against shock, vibration, dust and humidity: http://www.roda-computer.com/en/products/notebooks/rocky-iii-rk886ex.html
We have been testing various Linux distributions as well as Windows XP and Windows 7 booting on this nice notebook.
I want to sincerely thank those who made this project possible with their funding:
- secunet Security Networks AG
- Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnologie (Federal
Office for Information Security, BSI)
A big thank you also goes to everyone who worked with coresystems on this project.
Best regards, Stefan Reinauer
This is truly awesome Stefan! Great Work!
This could be the beginning of a coreboot laptop frenzy :-)
-- Thanks, Joseph Smith Set-Top-Linux www.settoplinux.org
-- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Darmawan Salihun darmawan.salihun@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, congratulation Stefan and to Coreboot of course.
I wonder how the embedded controller being handled in there ;-)
Well, no need to wonder: the code is all there!
ron
So here's a question. I wonder if there are laptops out there that are "largely compatible" with the rocky?
There's a real cybersecurity angle here, by the way. There are many organizations both in and out of governments that have concerns about proprietary binary-only BIOSes -- what's in there? Given the recent discovery that some proprietary BIOSes can be hacked by just changing the OEM logo, I think this concern is valid.
Esp. given this sort of thing: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/30/intel_bios_security_bug/ as seen on: http://invisiblethingslab.com/itl/Press.html
This has even led to proposals to move to ARM-based systems in some agencies, simply because the ARM is perceived as being an open "ecosystem", and increasingly most x86 platforms are not perceived the same way.
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