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Coreboot, the free PC BIOS that powers all Google Chromebooks, was recently ported to the Thinkpad X230
-by the long time GRUB hacker Vladimir 'φ-coder' Serbinenko. So this week-end, just while Libre Planet was
-taking place at the nearby MIT Stata Center, I decided to give a shot at it. Building a custom Coreboot
-image for the X230 was relatively easy:
+by the long time GRUB hacker Vladimir 'φ-coder' Serbinenko. And so this week-end, while Libre Planet was
+taking place at the nearby MIT Stata Center, I decided to give it a shot.
+
+Building a custom Coreboot image for the X230 was straightforward:
{{{
-git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/coreboot cd coreboot
+git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/coreboot
+cd coreboot
git submodule update --init --checkout
make crosstools-i386
# install the .config file provided by phcoder on the Coreboot wiki