Thank you very much for answering the qubesthrowaway's questions ! Regarding > Some of us G505s users are putting together a page with tips on Coreboot and Qubes, but I'm not sure where it will end up yet - sorry for delay! we just got a bit distracted with KolibriOS driver stuff (will be really awesome if that assembly network driver becomes a reality!), in the same time we would like to 1) upgrade the LZMA libraries of coreboot/seabios - the currently used ones are very very outdated 2) add paq8px compression support for putting even more useful stuff to our small 4 MB BIOS chips By the way it could be possible to upgrade a BIOS chip to 8 MB or even to 16 MB ;-) Asterysk has been trying to test this but accidentally damaged a copper track on his motherboard, so its going to take a while before we find out the answer to this question. Ideally we'd like to stay at 4 MB, because if some of us would be sitting at 8 MB / 16 MB while everyone else is at 4 MB BIOS chips - that would result in unnecessary fragmentation, so more of our efforts should be going towards those "compression methods". On average, paq8px is 25% better compression than LZMA used by coreboot/SeaBIOS, but it is much slower - perhaps it is going to take about 3 minutes to extract 1.44MB KolibriOS floppy to boot it, although we have not tested this on bare metal (from coreboot) yet - could be faster! There are also some extra challenges, e.g. paq8px sources are C++ but coreboot is C and doesn't even have g++ in its' toolchains, so I'm unsure how to merge them together. And using a "random g++" provided by some distro does not guarantee that this will be bootable. Maybe you know a great way of how to put C++ code into coreboot and make it compile?
Best regards, Ivan Ivanov aka qmastery 2018-03-28 0:52 GMT+03:00 'awokd' via qubes-users <qubes-users@googlegroups.com>: > On Mon, March 26, 2018 6:36 am, qubesthrowa...@gmail.com wrote: > > Could you please trim emails when you reply? It was hard to find your > questions in all that text! > >> Would it be a bad idea to run a PCIe SSD off of this instead of the WiFi >> card? > > I'm not sure you could fit one in there, the hole is only big enough for > half-height mini-PCIe cards. > >> Would 1866MHz @ CL10 be as good/better? > > Not sure on this one; Coreboot can be picky on memory timings. Might have > to dig in to the source code to see if that is supported, if nobody else > knows. > >> I just ordered a G505S and several of these upgrades and I'm excited to >> try flashing coreboot and getting Qubes going on it. Thanks for all the >> tips/help. > > Welcome! Some of us G505s users are putting together a page with tips on > Coreboot and Qubes, but I'm not sure where it will end up yet. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "qubes-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qubes-users/WEppbuqRpfY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/e08ce7eb54c001a711c200acb10e0024.squirrel%40tt3j2x4k5ycaa5zt.onion. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAAaskFDF7J4kPHUbyZyo%3DM6QR19MW789x4Zqe2JJXPzji8XgWQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
