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<h1 id="rom">List of ROM images in libreboot</h1>
<p>
- Libreboot supports the following (refer to the <a href="../release.html">release</a> page):
+ Libreboot distributes pre-compiled ROM images, built from the libreboot source code.
+ These images are provided for user convenience, so that they don't have
+ to build anything from source on their own.
</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Apple MacBook1,1 and MacBook2,1: download <b>libreboot_macbook21.tar.xz</b></li>
- <li>ASUS KFSN4-DRE: download <b>libreboot_kfsn4-dre.tar.xz</b> (see <a href="../hcl/kfsn4-dre.html">../hcl/kfsn4-dre.html</a>)</li>
- <li>ThinkPad X60, X60s and X60 Tablet: download <b>libreboot_x60.tar.xz</b></li>
- <li>ThinkPad T60: download <b>libreboot_t60.tar.xz</b> (see <a href="../hcl/index.html#supported_t60_list">../hcl/index.html#supported_t60_list</a>)</li>
- <li>ThinkPad X200: download <b>libreboot_x200_8mb.tar.xz</b> (8MiB flash chip) or <b>libreboot_x200_4mb.tar.xz</b> (4MiB flash chip) (see <a href="../hcl/x200.html">../hcl/x200.html</a>)</li>
- <li>ThinkPad R400: download <b>libreboot_r400_8mb.tar.xz</b> (8MiB flash chip) or <b>libreboot_r400_4mb.tar.xz</b> (4MiB flash chip) (see <a href="../hcl/r400.html">../hcl/r400.html</a>)</li>
- <li>ThinkPad T400: download <b>libreboot_t400_8mb.tar.xz</b> (8MiB flash chip) or <b>libreboot_t400_4mb.tar.xz</b> (4MiB flash chip) (see <a href="../hcl/t400.html">../hcl/t400.html</a>)</li>
- <li>ThinkPad T500: download <b>libreboot_t500_8mb.tar.xz</b> (8MiB flash chip) or <b>libreboot_t500_4mb.tar.xz</b> (4MiB flash chip) (see <a href="../hcl/t500.html">../hcl/t500.html</a>)</li>
- </ul>
<p>
- <b>
- The <i>libreboot_</i> text at the beginning of the filename
- for each archive will actually have <i>VERSION_</i> appended.
- </b>
- </p>
-
- <p>
- The ROM images in each archive use the following naming convention: <b>boardname_keymap_mode.rom</b>
+ The ROM images in each archive use the following at the end of the file name,
+ if they are built with the GRUB payload: <b>_<i>keymap</i>_<i>mode</i>.rom</b>
</p>
<p>
Available <i>modes</i>: <b>vesafb</b> or <b>txtmode</b>. The <i>vesafb</i> ROM images are recommended, in most cases;
@@ -84,7 +70,12 @@
by coreboot native graphics initialization.
</p>
<p>
- Keymaps are named appropriate/y according to each keyboard layout
+ <i>keymap</i> can be one of several keymaps that keyboard supports (there are quite a few),
+ which affects the keyboard layout configuration that is used in GRUB. It doesn't matter
+ which ROM image you choose here, as far as the keymap in GNU/Linux is concerned.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Keymaps are named appropriately according to each keyboard layout
support in GRUB. To learn how these keymaps are created, see
<a href="../grub/index.html#grub_keyboard">../grub/index.html#grub_keyboard</a>
</p>
@@ -94,12 +85,9 @@
<p>
Libreboot comes with ROM images built for QEMU, by default:
</p>
- <ul>
- <li><b>libreboot_qemu_q35_ich9.tar.xz</b></li>
- <li><b>libreboot_qemu_i440fx_piix4.tar.xz</b></li>
- </ul>
+
<p>
- Examples of how to use libreboot in QEMU:
+ Examples of how to use libreboot ROM images in QEMU:
</p>
<ul>
<li>$ <b>qemu-system-i386 -M q35 -m 512 -bios qemu_q35_ich9_keymap_mode.rom</b></li>
@@ -112,11 +100,6 @@
<p>
Other arguments are available for QEMU. The manual will contain more information.
</p>
-
- <p>
- On GM45 hardware (with libreboot), make sure that the <i>kvm</i> and <i>kvm_intel</i> kernel modules
- are not loaded, when using QEMU.
- </p>
<p>
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