Re: [coreboot] A new, modern coreboot long-term support laptop

[mrnuke]

On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:53:51 AM ron minnich wrote:
> Just one thing. Don't underestimate just how miserable the EC can make your
> life. I place a high premium on systems
> with an open EC. Just be careful there.

Can you tell us more about the Samsung Chromebook 2?

Alex

A new, modern coreboot long-term support laptop

[David Hendricks]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:57 AM, mrnuke <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:53:51 AM ron minnich wrote:
> > Just one thing. Don't underestimate just how miserable the EC can make
> > your
> > life. I place a high premium on systems
> > with an open EC. Just be careful there.
>
> Can you tell us more about the Samsung Chromebook 2?

What do you want to know? It's been announced, the specs are out, the
firmware code is out in the open (it ships with u-boot), and we even have
some code upstream for it in coreboot that could be polished up. There's
the usual masked ROM in addition to the 8KB BL0 blob, but everything else
is open including the EC firmware.

It's a nice laptop that is probably already a good candidate for RYF. I'll
leave subjective analysis as an exercise for the reader.

-- 
David Hendricks (dhendrix)
Systems Software Engineer, Google Inc.