<div dir="ltr">Here is more information on the Intel Manageability Engine. It's a really ugly binary that we can't escape yet. It does everything you fear. <a href="http://io.smashthestack.org:84/me/" target="_blank">http://io.smashthestack.org:84/me/</a><div><div><br></div><div>You may need a sample me.bin in order to do a test build during your preparation for Thursday... </div><div><br></div><div>Speaking of which, Paul did you say you had a chromebook ME that people could use JUST for learning purposes (NOT in your actual x220).</div><div><br></div></div><div>On Thursday, each of us will extract the me.bin from our own stock EEPROM and include it in the coreboot build process.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Trent Robbins</div><div>Tau Informatics LLC</div><div>desk: <a href="tel:415-404-9452" value="+14154049452" target="_blank">415-404-9452</a></div><div>cell: <a href="tel:513-233-5651" value="+15132335651" target="_blank">513-233-5651</a></div><div><a href="mailto:trent@tauinformatics.com" target="_blank">trent@tauinformatics.com</a></div><div>@trentrobbins</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Trent Robbins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robbintt@gmail.com" target="_blank">robbintt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>Get out your calendars - we're coreboot-ing our x220s this Thursday, November 5th.</div><div><br></div><div>I have 14 of the 16MB/128MBit EEPROM chips recommended by Paul. All of them have been spoken for, but we are expecting to have a few extra by the end if a waitlist forms.</div><div><br></div><div>Please bring $4 per x220 you will be modifying. We can choose what to do with any extra chips. LMK in private if you need someone to spot you the $4.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div><b>Event: </b>Noisebridge Coreboot Workshop - Hardware Hacking Day! (1st session)</div><b>Place:</b> Noisebridge Hackatorium (we don't need a big space so we'll just grab a table)<div><br></div><div><b>Time: </b><b><u>5-6 PM begin hardware modification</u></b>. Latecomers should be fine.</div><div><b>Date:</b> Thursday, November 5th.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Important Preparation:</b> Please simulate this before coming in: <a href="http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO#Building_a_payload" target="_blank">http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO#Building_a_payload</a></div><div>Lenovo x220, Specific Information: <a href="http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x220" target="_blank">http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x220</a></div><div><br></div><div>We are determining which payload to use. SeaBIOS is recommended for a first payload. I read that it is easy to screw up a GRUB2 payload if you don't know exactly what you are doing with grub. You can also run GRUB2 from SeaBIOS so I am leaning in the SeaBIOS direction.</div><div><a href="http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS" target="_blank">SeaBIOS Payload</a></div><div><a href="http://www.coreboot.org/GRUB2" target="_blank">GRUB2 Payload</a></div><div>Anyone else have thoughts on payload?</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone wants to come by earlier, Paul and I are meeting at 3 PM to make sure it's as smooth as possible and everyone leaves with a working x220.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Trent</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Trent Robbins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robbintt@gmail.com" target="_blank">robbintt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div>Inaugural post for the freshly minted Hardware mailing list!</div><div><br></div><div>There is a Noisebridge Coreboot workshop coming up. It will be the first of two workshops.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This workshop is focused on the Lenovo x220 and x230 laptop. </div><div><br></div><div>We will be flashing and soldering new EEPROM with the GRUB2 payload. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>There is currently discussion regarding when to run this workshop. </div><div><br></div><div>The order of EEPROM has already been made, but we are planning to run a second workshop soon after!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Trent<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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