As much as I love the idea of this laptop, I feel like I can not move to it without the safety Coreboot offers
Are there instructions on how to Coreboot this laptop? Or even better can it be done from the factory?
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Coreboot is not an available option at this time.
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Coreboot still doesn’t support AMD either last I checked.
This laptop you can get with AMD and Coreboot StarFighter 16-inch – Star Labs®
However the Framework 16 is a better laptop for the same price. But if I can not get the Framework 16 I might be forced to go with Starfighters even though the processor is older
Also I don’t think it is available yet but I think in a few years, all AMD processors will be coreboot compatible
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There has been some movement of Coreboot for the Intel Frameworks, I can’t wait until AMD openSIL comes out tbh.
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an interesting article to read about coreboot development for laptop:
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And a quick double check that today is, in fact, not April 1st.
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You forgot to mention they banned anything from AMD too…
All this sounds like corporate suicide to me. But then, as you mentioned, I had never heard of them before so I am unlikely to ever miss them.
Still … it doesn’t give a lot of confidence in coreboot either.
You aren’t required to give all opinions equal weight or airtime! You can probably safely assume that these people who went out of their way to be difficult to work with (see all above) do not have a valid opinion on a project that requires working with people.
Through that lens, it should impact exactly nobody’s confidence in the Coreboot project.
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Check out Phoronix’s article on Coreboot and FW 16
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Maybe this connector on the FW16 mainboard would help.
We don’t know the pin-out, but if those can be used to unbrick a FW16 mainboard, and re-write the BIOS/EC firmware. Users could then experiment much more freely with custom BIOS.
All they would need to do would be to add a connector to the mainboard 30 pads.
Like I mentioned in this thread: No, JUDC connector is useless unless you’re doing active firmware development (and even then according to some people upper-left USB-C port apparently has SoC UART exposed, I didn’t have resistors necessary to make PD controller mux those pins so I didn’t verify it),
If you want to re-flash the SPI flash the easiest way is to poke it with a probe. There’s a JSPI connector near the SPI flash, but it doesn’t have necessary resistors and VCC pin isn’t exposed.
Here’s my current setup, I hope Framework’s engineers won’t send assassins to my house after seeing what I’ve done to their child.
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