Hi!
Does some have the X61 running with coreboot and can provide help to a beginner (config, images, ...)?
I read the X60 wiki articles and there is a X61 mentioned as a reference. But the actual chips seem to differ very much.
TIA mad
Hi mad,
someone who has experience porting chipsets could add support for the i965 chipset with maybe 6-12 months of fulltime work. This is of course under the (unlikely) assumption that full documentation is available. If you're doing it as a hobby and have to learn firmware development first, I expect 4 years of spare time, maybe more. After that porting to the Thinkpad x61 would be relatively easy.
For more info see http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2011-July/065973.html
Regards, Carl-Daniel
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If you already have an X61, you can swap out the motherboard.
Find a motherboard for the X60s, if you have an X61s. Find a motherboard for the X60 or X60s, if you have an X61. (if using X60s board in X61 chassis, make sure to use the bigger X60/X61 heatsink/fan).
Then you have an X60/X60s, albeit with an X61/X61s case.
On 13/04/14 22:50, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Hi mad,
someone who has experience porting chipsets could add support for the i965 chipset with maybe 6-12 months of fulltime work. This is of course under the (unlikely) assumption that full documentation is available. If you're doing it as a hobby and have to learn firmware development first, I expect 4 years of spare time, maybe more. After that porting to the Thinkpad x61 would be relatively easy.
For more info see http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2011-July/065973.html
Regards, Carl-Daniel