[coreboot] Group demographics

[Aaron Durbin]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:39 AM,  <tturne at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> On 2017-03-24 08:23, ron minnich wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:14 AM <tturne at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Q.1) Are questions related to Coreboot + Payload that boots a
>>> Chromebook
>>> appropriate for this list or a ChromiumOS list?
>>
>>
>> of course!
>
>
> First the question and then the background.
>
> Q) Are there any shipping commercial chromebooks that use depthcharge as a
> payload?

All x86 system since 2013? All non-x86 systems a little after that
once the switch to coreboot.

>
> Background...
>  * coreboot tree only list 4 payload config files:  nyan, oak, purin, veyron
>  * chromium tree
> .../src/third_party/chromiumos-overlay/sys-boot/coreboot/files/configs/ all
> have CONFIG_PAYLOAD_NONE=y

We add payloads ourselves using cbfstool in the chromeos-bootimage ebuild.

>  * Google's recovery manifest (from linux_recovery.sh) can pull a recovery
> image for a specific product, I have yet to find depthcharge as a payload
>  * Obviously I haven't pulled all of the recovery images, but have looked at
> ~10
>  * those interested in recovery image, /usr/sbin/chromeos_firmwareupdate
> --sb_extract yields a bios.bin file that cbfstool can parse (i.e. is a
> coreboot.rom file)
>
> At this point I would be interested in any chromebook (even x86) that ships
> with depthcharge as a payload.
>
> Cheers,
> T.mike
>
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