Replacing BIOS

[R B]

Dear Sir / Madam,

I bought a mini PC with an N100 CPU and AMI BIOS on Aliexpress. Is it possible to replace the AMI BIOS with coreboot?

Yours sincerely,

Rachid.

P.S. I read on the internet that Chinese equipment may be spying via devices/electronics. Is that true? And will changing BIOS help against this?

[Ivan Ivanov]

Sorry, the motherboard is unknown and most likely isn't supported with
coreboot. If you want a motherboard that's supported by coreboot,
check the coreboot board supported list before getting one

P.S. Any electronics with the closed source firmware may be spying on
you, regardless of its origin country. Therefore the opensource
firmwares are must have if you'd like the secure computing

пн, 25 сент. 2023 г. в 13:35, R B :
> Dear Sir / Madam,
>
> I bought a mini PC with an N100 CPU and AMI BIOS on Aliexpress. Is it possible to replace the AMI BIOS with coreboot?
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Rachid.
>
> P.S. I read on the internet that Chinese equipment may be spying via devices/electronics. Is that true? And will changing BIOS help against this?
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[Matt DeVillier]

Is it possible? Almost certainly, as the vast majority of the Intel devices
sold on Aliexpress do not have Bootguard enabled.

That said, as the board isn't currently supported, it would require some
dev work to port. But there are already other Alderlake-N devices in the
tree, so it would not be an insurmountable challenge.

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:57 PM R B  wrote:
> Hello Ivan,
>
> Thanks for replying.
>
> Too bad it isn't possible.
>
> Thanks anyway,
>
> Rachid
>
> Op 24 okt. 2023 10:21 schreef Ivan Ivanov :
>
> Sorry, the motherboard is unknown and most likely isn't supported with
> coreboot. If you want a motherboard that's supported by coreboot,
> check the coreboot board supported list before getting one
>
> P.S. Any electronics with the closed source firmware may be spying on
> you, regardless of its origin country. Therefore the opensource
> firmwares are must have if you'd like the secure computing
>
> пн, 25 сент. 2023 г. в 13:35, R B :
> > Dear Sir / Madam,
> >
> > I bought a mini PC with an N100 CPU and AMI BIOS on Aliexpress. Is it
>
> possible to replace the AMI BIOS with coreboot?
> > Yours sincerely,
> >
> > Rachid.
> >
> > P.S. I read on the internet that Chinese equipment may be spying via
>
> devices/electronics. Is that true? And will changing BIOS help against
> this?
> > coreboot mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
>
> coreboot mailing list -- [e-mail]
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