2024-02-21 21:01:07 +00:00
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% NEW BOARDS: Dell OptiPlex 7020 9020 SFF/MT, HP EliteBook 8560w and more Dell Latitudes
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% Leah Rowe
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% 21 February 2024
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Libreboot has had a slew of new mainboards added recently. The work doesn't
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stop. Many more will be added, for the next Libreboot release.
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The boards are:
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Dell OptiPlex 7020 and 9020 (MT and SFF)
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See: [Dell OptiPlex 9020 SFF/MT (and 7020)](../docs/hardware/dell9020.html)
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This is a highly performant Haswell board, with plenty of expansion and
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upgrade options available. Notably, it is a *desktop* computer, available
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as *SFF* (similar to ITX) and *MT* (ATX) variants.
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2024-02-21 21:04:50 +00:00
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It is also also sold with [Libreboot preinstalled](https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-9020/);
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I sell these machines preinstalled, aswell as several others, to raise funds
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for the Libreboot project. Profits from Minifree sales directly fund the
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Libreboot project. I added this myself recently, based on patches from coreboot
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Gerrit.
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HP EliteBook 8560w
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Riku Viitanen added this recently. See:
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[HP EliteBook 8560w](../docs/hardware/hp8560w.html).
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Of note: this board uses an *MXM* graphics card, which you can upgrade. Riku
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added support for loading MXM configuration via INT15H interrupt in SeaBIOS,
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and he wrote a tool ([mxmdump](https://codeberg.org/Riku_V/mxmdump/)) that can
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extract the config.
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As per MXM specs, the MXM config may be hardwired in a ROM on the i2c bus, and
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we don't need to do anything there except load the VGA option ROM from SeaBIOS.
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However, on these EliteBooks, it must be provided in the boot flash.
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A *lot* more Dell Latitudes
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===========================
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Nicholas Chin recently added these Dell Latitudes (of Sandybridge and Ivybridge
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platforms) to Libreboot:
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* [Dell Latitude E6420](../docs/hardware/e6420.html)
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* [Dell Latitude E5520](../docs/hardware/e5520.html)
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* [Dell Latitude E5530](../docs/hardware/e5530.html)
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* [Dell Latitude E6520](../docs/hardware/e6520.html)
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These are flashable via the usual method, same as E6400 and E6430.
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I'm extremely happy with this great progress. These and more will be available
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in the next Libreboot release, but if you want to use them now, you
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can [build Libreboot from source](../docs/build/) and install them using the
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available flashing instructions.
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Enjoy!
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