Ok, thank for your help! really aprecciate ! :)


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On Thursday, June 18, 2020 11:27 AM, Angel Pons <th3fan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:18 AM Mike Banon mikeb...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > It's a bit not obvious, but by searching at
> > ./coreboot/src/mainboard/lenovo$ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0
> > grep -n "R500" ----- I could see that R500 is a variant of Thinkpad
> > T400: i.e. " ./t400/Kconfig.name:10:config BOARD_LENOVO_R500 " . Since
> > this board_status table mentions each board type once, only T400
> > appears there.
>
> Yes, this is a known problem of board status.
>
> > So your R500 is supported by coreboot, almost certainly blobless.
> > coreboot's installation is identical to libreboot: you simply flash a
> > compiled BIOS image. Tool to change a mac address: I haven't checked
> > if it could be found in ./coreboot/util/ - but almost certainly a
> > libreboot's tool should be compatible with coreboot, and maybe
> > libreboot project took this tool from somewhere else where there's an
> > even newer version
>
> This is untrue. By default, coreboot will not produce a full firmware
> image, so one must only flash the BIOS region. With a recent enough
> flashrom (v1.1 onwards), it's just a matter of adding the `--ifd -i bios` 
> arguments when flashing coreboot. Moreover, the R500 does not
> use the Intel GbE controller inside the southbridge, but a Broadcom
> PCIe NIC. Its MAC address does not reside in the flash chip, so it is
> not easy to change.
>
> In any case, there's documentation in coreboot:
> https://doc.coreboot.org/mainboard/lenovo/montevina_series.html
>
> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:41 AM trabajo3 via coreboot
> > coreboot@coreboot.org wrote:
> >
> > > Hello!, I wantt to know if the Lenovo R500 has coreboot support without 
> > > any blobs
> > > https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Coreboot-4.10-Released
> > > Here it says that is supported
> > > but
> > > https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html
> > > doesnt appear
> > > and in the tree also no
> > > Another question is if there is any tool like in the libreboot proyect to 
> > > change mac address and if there is any complete video tutorial to install 
> > > libreboot, because in youtube there are full videos about libreboot but 
> > > for coreboot i didnt find anyone with good explanation.
> > > Thanks for ur time!
> > > Best Regards
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> Regards,
> Angel

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