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The osboot project was rebooted on January 4th, 2022. Some boards were deleted as a result, but they will be re-added later, with documentation also re-added. The Libreboot and osboot projects went completely out of sync, but the Libreboot project was more up to date, so osboot, itself a fork of Libreboot originally, was PURGED and then RE-FORKED once again, but from Libreboot in late 2021. From now on, greater care will be taken to keep the two projects in sync. Both projects are lead and were also founded by Leah Rowe.

The current version of osboot already has several major differences. For example, microcode updates are enabled by default, on all boards, even those that Libreboot supports (this greatly increases system stability).

This sections relates to known hardware compatibility in osboot.

For installation instructions, refer to ../install/.

NOTE: For T60/R60 thinkpads, make sure that it has an Intel GPU, not an ATI GPU because coreboot lacks native video initialization for the ATI GPUs on these machines.

(for later machines like T500, T400, ATI GPU doesn't matter, because it also has an Intel GPU, and osboot uses the Intel one)

Supported hardware

osboot currently supports the following systems in this release:

Desktops (AMD, Intel, x86)

• Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L motherboard
• Acer G43T-AM3
• Intel D510MO and D410PT motherboards
• Intel D945GCLF (D945GCLF2D also reported working by a user)
• Apple iMac 5,2

Servers/workstations (AMD, x86)

• ASUS KCMA-D8 motherboard
• ASUS KGPE-D16 motherboard
• ASUS KFSN4-DRE motherboard

Laptops (Intel, x86)

• ThinkPad X60 / X60S / X60 Tablet
• ThinkPad T60 (with Intel GPU)
• Lenovo ThinkPad X200 / X200S / X200 Tablet
• Lenovo ThinkPad X230 (documentation needs to be re-added, ever since the purge on 4 January 2022. It will be done asap)
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301
• Lenovo ThinkPad R400
• Lenovo ThinkPad T400 / T400S
• Lenovo ThinkPad T500
• Lenovo ThinkPad W500
• Lenovo ThinkPad R500
• Apple MacBook1,1 and MacBook2,1
• Lenovo ThinkPad T440p
• Lenovo Thinkpad X220
• Lenovo Thinkpad X220t
• Lenovo Thinkpad T420
• Lenovo Thinkpad X230
• Lenovo Thinkpad X230t

TODO: More hardware is supported. See resources/coreboot/ in osbmk. Update the above list!

'Supported' means that the build scripts know how to build ROM images for these systems, and that the systems have been tested (confirmed working). There may be exceptions; in other words, this is a list of 'officially' supported systems.

EC update on i945 (X60, T60) and GM45 (X200, X301, T400, T500, R400, W500, R500)

It is recommended that you update to the latest EC firmware version. The EC firmware is separate from osboot, so we don't actually provide that, but if you still have Lenovo BIOS then you can just run the Lenovo BIOS update utility, which will update both the BIOS and EC version. See:

• ../install/#flashrom
• http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_update_without_optical_disk

NOTE: this can only be done when you are using Lenovo BIOS. How to update the EC firmware while running osboot is unknown. osboot only replaces the BIOS firmware, not EC.

Updated EC firmware has several advantages e.g. better battery handling.

How to find what EC version you have (i945/GM45)

In GNU+Linux, you can try this:

grep 'at EC' /proc/asound/cards

Sample output:

ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 7WHT19WW-3.6

7WHT19WW is the version in different notation, use search engine to find out regular version - in this case it's a 1.06 for x200 tablet