Installing OpenBIOS

Hi. I've watched a television broadcast where a hacker or security expert suspected that the BIOS of ThinkPads has a backdoor and therefore he installed OpenBIOS.

I read https://www.openfirmware.info/OpenBIOS.

1. Please tell me whether a user without  knowledge in programming or Linux command lines in Terminal is able to install OpenBIOS.

2. Would you provide step by step instructions (especially for my case) how to install OpenBIOS on my system?

Regards,

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 23/10/2021 07:03, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi. I've watched a television broadcast where a hacker or security expert suspected that the BIOS of ThinkPads has a backdoor and therefore he installed OpenBIOS.
>
> I read https://www.openfirmware.info/OpenBIOS.
>
> Please tell me whether a user without  knowledge in programming or Linux command lines in Terminal is able to install OpenBIOS.
>
> Would you provide step by step instructions (especially for my case) how to install OpenBIOS on my system?

The best instructions I've seen far have been at https://www.coreboot.org/OpenBIOS 
which shows how to use OpenBIOS as coreboot payload.

Having said that, OpenBIOS doesn't have much support for modern hardware so I suspect 
you'd be better off using SeaBIOS or EDK2 as a coreboot payload to get the latest 
functionality.

ATB,

Mark.