Re: [coreboot] T520 vs. T530

2018-10-23 Thread Nico Huber
On 10/23/18 11:18 PM, Michał Kopeć wrote: >> Not quite so. On T520 the flash chip is accessible right after you >> remove the keyboard and the palmrest and there's no need to remove the >> motherboard from chassis. > Sorry, my bad. I mixed up my facts there. > >> Although it's possible to use just

Re: [coreboot] T520 vs. T530

2018-10-23 Thread Evgeny Zinoviev
On 10/24/2018 12:18 AM, Michał Kopeć wrote: >> Although it's possible to use just the 8M chip by using modified layout, it >> might >> be confusing for a beginner. > I managed to flash my T430's both flash chips by splitting the 12M > coreboot image into two parts (4M + 8M) and flashing the chips

Re: [coreboot] T520 vs. T530

2018-10-23 Thread Michał Kopeć
>Not quite so. On T520 the flash chip is accessible right after you >remove the keyboard and the palmrest and there's no need to remove the >motherboard from chassis. Sorry, my bad. I mixed up my facts there. >Although it's possible to use just the 8M chip by using modified layout, it >might >be

Re: [coreboot] T520 vs. T530

2018-10-23 Thread Evgeny Zinoviev
>> 3. With which model it is easier to install coreboot on it? > No practical difference, the building and flashing procedure is the same. Not quite so. On T520 the flash chip is accessible right after you remove the keyboard and the palmrest and there's no need to remove the motherboard from cha

Re: [coreboot] T520 vs. T530

2018-10-23 Thread Nico Huber
On 10/23/18 7:59 PM, Michał Kopeć wrote: >> 1. I need CPU power. I read that it is possible to put a i7-3940XM in a >> T530. Because of coreboot it should also possible to put it in a T520? > Yes, with Coreboot you can put an Ivy Bridge CPU into a xx20 series > ThinkPads. It works sometimes. AFAIK

Re: [coreboot] T520 vs. T530

2018-10-23 Thread Michał Kopeć
>1. I need CPU power. I read that it is possible to put a i7-3940XM in a T530. >Because of coreboot it should also possible to put it in a T520? Yes, with Coreboot you can put an Ivy Bridge CPU into a xx20 series ThinkPads. >2. I would like to use an eGPU. Any differences between these two models

Re: [coreboot] Contribution to coreboot board status

2018-10-23 Thread Patrick Georgi via coreboot
Am Di., 23. Okt. 2018 um 10:18 Uhr schrieb Sven Dreyer : > I'd like to contribute the board status of my Alix 2C board, which runs > great using coreboot. Wonderful, welcome to the coreboot community! > https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html says > that this is possible if you have an ac

Re: [coreboot] [AMD family16h] What need to be done in coreboot to support the Virtual Wire mode

2018-10-23 Thread Rudolf Marek
Hi, Dne 23. 10. 18 v 1:57 Marc Jones napsal(a): > Does VxWorks use the ACPI tables for IRQ routing? You might need that. Yes good question. Usually OS uses ACPI, or MPTable or what BIOS provided in the PCI device itself. It seems because you are asking for the virtual wire mode IOAPIC is not su

[coreboot] Contribution to coreboot board status

2018-10-23 Thread Sven Dreyer
Hi list, I'd like to contribute the board status of my Alix 2C board, which runs great using coreboot. https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html says that this is possible if you have an account at review.coreboot.org, but on that site, there is no "create account" button. Login with launc

Re: [coreboot] T520 vs. T530

2018-10-23 Thread Iru Cai
The iGPU T520 and dGPU T420 have stability problems when running coreboot. ( https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/121) So get a T530/W530/W520/dGPU T520. I don't know the eGPU status of notebooks running coreboot. On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 3:01 PM wrote: > Hello guys, > > I am planning to buy a use

[coreboot] T520 vs. T530

2018-10-23 Thread yc-153434
Hello guys, I am planning to buy a used Lenovo Thinkpad and install coreboot on it. I am completely new to coreboot and I need help in the decision if I should buy a T520 or a T530. I read the wiki and some other pages but it's still hard for me to decide which model I should buy. 1. I need CP