Re: [coreboot] Regarding Intel (and Librem)

2015-04-26 Thread Vladimir
Today I discovered that CPU is indeed socket-ed on G505s, so it is possible to get G505s with less powerful CPU (e.g. A8) , and - if it turns out to be not compatible, or not fast enough for your needs, then you could get A10-5750M and install by yourself. Saw it for ~$50-$80 at Aliexpress (higher

[coreboot] Google Panther: coreboot has to wait for Intel’s ME (Management Engine)

2015-04-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, looking at the time stamps of the Intel Haswell device Google Panther, which Matt DeVillier thankfully uploaded to the board status repository [1], it looks odd that it took around a quarter of a second, from after the SeaBIOS payload was decompressed to starting the payload.