[CC coreboot@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. > Or are you guys just running the EC in whatever state it cold-starts at? > You can probably get away with it for a while on a T60/X60, but... > > Well, at least make sure to have thinkpad-acpi and use something to > monitor the kernel log, so that if the EC starts alarming that the > machine is going to catch fire, thinkpad-acpi will LOG_ALERT and > LOG_CRIT to the kernel log, and something will tell you to DO SOMETHING > ASAP. Gnome thinks it knows better, and *actively* refuses[1] to output > even the two "your box is about to do something REALLY bad" highest > priority log levels. KDE is not that irresponsible and will alert you. > > [1] as in: it was done on purpose, because "users don't know what to do > with those messages anyway". The information about assisted machine suicide on GNOME is actually quite interesting, I don't know how this is handled on a machine running coreboot. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot