[coreboot] [ltp] Re: [Thinkpad] Free T60

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at hmh.eng.br
Mon Jul 2 15:30:46 CEST 2012


On Mon, 02 Jul 2012, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> [CC coreboot at coreboot.org]
> 
> Am 01.07.2012 16:45 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> >> You do know that all Thinkpad T60/X60 can replace the BIOS with coreboot?
> > How would that work?  About half the stuff the firmware does is an
> > interaction between the EC and the SMBIOS, did anyone reverse engineer
> > that?
> 
> Actually, yes. You can achieve quite a lot if you have IDA Pro and a few
> high-end logic analyzers at hand.

Indeed.  That's way beyond what I can do, here.  Is there any way to get a
(clean room style) documentation about what you guys found?  It could help
improve the Linux drivers...

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh




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