[coreboot] Re: Intel processors supported

[David Hendricks]

Hello,

> We're developing a security focused computer product and hoping to use 
> coreboot. Is it possible to use with modern Intel laptop processors and if so 
> which families or platforms?

Easiest way to find out is to look thru the src/soc/intel/ directory
in the codebase:
https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/tree/src/soc/intel

Upstream Intel reference boards are in
https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/tree/src/mainboard/intel.
There are many other mainboard targets (laptops and otherwise) that
use them under src/mainboard/.

This said, please be advised that support for Intel platforms is not
fully open source; only parts of it are open. You can certainly do
better than most using coreboot on Intel platforms, however if fully
open source code is important in your security model then you will not
find it in the Intel (or AMD) ecosystem right now.
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[coreboot] Re: Extended IvyBridge CPU configuration

[Lars Hochstetter]

Unfortunately I'll be rather busy until mid April this year - here is my 
plan for the time being:


I'll reinstall Linux Mint Cinnamon, integrate memtest86+ into coreboot 
and run it. I'll report back if it's just bad RAM or something else.


Since my T430 was modified a couple times I'd also suggest we try to 
find someone with a more stock T430 to see if your HT patch works. The 
X230 somewhere in this thread worked and I'd argue that it does work 
properly on unmodified Thinkpads.


Sorry for a long reply too. About mrc.bin: no, it's actually possible 
to use mrc blob on Sandy/Ivy, but as I see it's not supported across 
all boards. X220 has support, other boards needs patching (or maybe 
patches are already on gerrit, I'm not sure). It shouldn't be hard to 
get it working, though. 
Can you elaborate on this one? Why does the X220 has support and other 
Sandy/IvyBridge based laptops are not supported? Wasn't one of the ideas 
for coreboot to have a more common code base or am I missing something 
obvious?


Regards

lhochstetter
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