19 Jan
2018
19 Jan
'18
2:59 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 4:57 AM, Christopher Havel laserhawk64@gmail.com wrote:
Forgive a top-post, please, Luke - I'm on my phone.
Coreboot, IIRC, is a replacement for BIOS/UEFI. So if you have the original system's motherboard intact - in which case you cannot drop in the chip you want to drop in - you can replace the contents of what is essentially the boot ROM chip with coreboot. That's as far as that goes...
Ok so it doesn't really do that much on it's own. Got it, thanks. I was thinking more along the lines of old thinkpads which have a decent amount of reverse engineering done to them. Even the x230 has the keyboard layout reverse engineered by a sysadmin who wanted to soehorn the old 7 row on it.