[coreboot] Thinkpad X230: store the proprietary VGA bios in the blobs repo?

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Thu May 17 01:00:29 CEST 2018


Peter is right. Unless you get a clear statement from the owner of the VGA
BIOS you can't put it in the repo.

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 3:17 PM Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:

> Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> > Unfortunately I haven't yet found a license applying to it. I'm
> > thankful for hints.
>
> I don't think it's possible to acquire the VGA BIOS standalone under
> a license permitting redistribution. I think only IBVs may redistribute
> as part of their products, and of course only according to their NDAs
> with Intel.
>
> If the file is somewhere on the internet that's great. If the host
> seems stable maybe some automation to pull it into the build could
> be added (with proper checksum), but I'd forget about storing it on
> coreboot.org.
>
>
> //Peter
>
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