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+ Look into these machines (based on discussions from IRC):
+ &lt;pehjota&gt; After the conversation yesterday about KolibriOS, I stumbled upon some hardware that community seems to like: the Vortex86 series of i586-compatible SoCs and the DMP EBOX nettops that use those SoCs. coreboot supports one computer by DMP (src/mainboard/dmp/vortex86ex/) which appears to be the EBOX-3100 (the only EBOX nettop AFAICT without VGA). Three years ago someone ported coreboot to the<br/>
+ &lt;pehjota&gt; EBOX-3300MX but apparently never upstreamed that work. These Vortex86 SoCs look pretty good, freedom-wise: I think there's no microcode at all, the VGA cores don't seem to need option ROMs, and there are no blobs for things like ME/MRC/AGESA. They have relatively low CPU clock rates (most at 600 or 933 MHz), so they aren't great for compiling or gaming. But they're sold as nettops, thin clients,<br/>
+ &lt;pehjota&gt; and embedded systems, and the prices ($95–$269 from the US distributor) aren't bad.<br/>
+ &lt;pehjota&gt; DMP EBOX computers: <http://www.compactpc.com.tw/en/index.html>. EBOX-3300MX coreboot port: <https://github.com/XVilka/coreboot> (last six commits). Basic (and incomplete) information on the Vortex86 SoCs: <http://www.vortex86.com/>. Some technical overviews and resources: <http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/>. DMP's BusyBox/Linux distribution (with a Linux config file but apparently no source code):<br/>
+ &lt;pehjota&gt; <http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/os-xlinux/>.
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Fix remaining incompatible LCD panels in native graphics on T60.
See <a href="future/index.html#lcd_i945_incompatibility">future/index.html#lcd_i945_incompatibility</a>.
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