Libreboot task list

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Important tasks for the libreboot project

This page is part of the git repository, so feel free to submit patches adding to or removing from this list. (adapting the HTML should be simple enough)

Special news that affects libreboot

Board ports

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Platform-specific bugs

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Flashing from lenovobios to libreboot (and vice versa)

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Build system

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Improvements to the utilities

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BeagleBone Black

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Documentation improvements

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Project (institutional) improvements

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EC firmware

http://www.coreboot.org/Embedded_controller Replace this on all libreboot targets. Some laptops use an extra SPI flash chip for the EC, some have EC in the main chip, some don't use SPI flash at all but have the firmware inside the EC chip itself. If the EC has integrated flash then you need to be able to get to the pins on the chip or be able to program them over LPC or SPI (if they have that feature). The lenovo laptops currently supported in libreboot all use H8 EC chips (contains flash inside the chip). Read the datasheets on how to externally flash the EC. Chromebooks seem to have free EC (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/master/chip/). - see http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/05/28/progress-gsoc-week-1/ (H8S EC, applies to thinkpads)

https://github.com/lynxis/h8s-ec https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4174.en.html

https://archive.org/details/27c3-4174-en-the_hidden_nemesis

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