[coreboot] Coreboot on Acer Aspire 5100

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Mon May 11 15:56:40 CEST 2009


Hi,

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 06:12:06PM -0500, Jav wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm really interested on your project, I was trying to figure
> out if I can flash my laptop with your coreboot but I couldn't find my
> motherboard on your compatibility list. I have an Acer Aspire 5100 with AMD
> Turion X2 64 and an Ati Radeon Xpress 1100 chipset. I would apreciate your
> help.

Hi, sorry but coreboot doesn't yet support laptops, as they're a lot
harder to support than desktop PCs, among other things because of the
Embedded Controller (EC) in laptops, and because of general lack of
documentation and datasheets in this area.


Uwe.
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