[coreboot] Coreboot on Thinkpad "X62" (i7-5600u)?

Rafael Send rsend at berkeley.edu
Thu Feb 23 22:22:13 CET 2017


"MEI device not found". I take it that's good news?

Rafael

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:51 AM, Iru Cai <mytbk920423 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Rafael Send <rsend at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello there-
>> I'm assuming this is the right way to ask a general question, but please
>> let me know if it isn't.
>>
>> I have an "X62" laptop, which is actually an old Thinkpad X61 with a
>> custom motherboard in it.
>> This board has an i7-5600u CPU on it, and I was wondering if it was
>> possible to build a version of coreboot for this machine.
>> I see an existing mailing list entry in the archive discussing a
>> Chromebook Pixel with the same CPU, so I'm thinking it may be possible
>> unless I'm missing something major.
>> Since this is a custom motherboard, how would I find out about the Intel
>> Boot Guard and related issues so that I can provide the details for the
>> good folks here?
>>
>
> You can try https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/16328/, or modify some
> instructions in the firmware to see if it still boots.
>
> If boot guard is not enabled, I think booting with coreboot is not so
> hard, but it may be hard to make the EC interface work fine.
>
> Iru
>
> I'm pretty comfortable around Linux but probably would have trouble
>> building this from scratch.
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Rafael
>>
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