-By Bernie Innocenti, 23 March 2014 (re-published with minor edits on 30 June 2020)
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-== Flashing Coreboot on the Thinkpad X230 ==
+== <span style="text-align: right"> Flashing Coreboot on the Thinkpad X230</span> ==
-<div style="width:800px; margin:0 auto;">{{pictures/misc/x230-flashing.jpg | maxwidth=640}}</div>
+By Bernie Innocenti \\
+23 March 2014 (re-published with minor edits on 30 June 2020)
+
+<div style="width: 640px; margin:0 auto">{{pictures/linux/x230-flashing.jpg | maxwidth=640}}</div>
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
Nevertheless, Coreboot seems to be improving rapidly in terms of usability and hardware support. There's a lively developer
community and some business participation. It's not yet something I'd recommend to casual users, but if you're a nerd with a
-spare laptop and a fetish for hardware hacking, you might want to give Coreboot a try while it's still l33t 😉
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+spare laptop and a fetish for hardware hacking, you might want to give Coreboot a try while it's still l33t 😉
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