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% Libreboot 20140720 release
% Leah Rowe
% 20 July 2014
Revisions for r20140720 (3rd beta) (20th July 2014)
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- Fixed typo that existed in 2nd beta where the release date of the
2nd beta was listed as being in year 2016, when in actual fact it
was 2014.
- Documentation: added (preliminary) details about (rare) buggy CPUs
on the ThinkPad T60 that were found to fail (instability, kernel
panics, etc) without the microcode updates.
- Documentation: added docs/hardware/x60\_heatsink.html for showing
how to change the heatsink on the Thinkpad X60
- Added ROM images for Azerty (French) keyboard layout in GRUB
(courtesy of Olivier Mondoloni)
- Tidied up some scripts:
- ~~Re-factored those scripts (made easier to read/maintain):
build-x60, build-x60t, build-t60, build-macbook21~~
- ~~Reduced the number of grub configs to 2 (or 1, for macbook21),
the build scripts now generate the other configs at build
time.~~
- Deleted build-x60, build-x60t, build-t60, build-macbook21 and
replaced with intelligent (generic) buildrom-withgrub script
- Updated build to use buildrom-withgrub script for building the
ROM images.
- coreboot.rom and coreboot\_serial.rom renamed to
coreboot\_usqwerty.rom and coreboot\_serial\_usqwerty.rom
- coreboot\_dvorak and coreboot\_serial\_dvorak.rom renamed to
coreboot\_usdvorak.rom and coreboot\_serial\_usdvorak.rom
- Renamed coreboot\*rom to libreboot\*rom
- Made flash, lenovobios\_firstflash and lenovobios\_secondflash
scripts fail if the specified file does not exist.
- Updated all relevant parts of the documentation to reflect the
above.
- Replaced background.png with background.jpg. added gnulove.jpg.
(resources/grub/background/)
- Updated buildrom-withgrub to use background.jpg instead of
background.png
- Updated buildrom-withgrub to use gnulove.jpg aswell
- Updated resources/grub/config/macbook21/grub\*cfg to use gnulove.jpg
background.
- Updated resources/grub/config/{x60,t60,x60t}/grub\*cfg to use
background.jpg background.
- Documentation: updated docs/\#grub\_custom\_keyboard to be more
generally useful.
- nvramtool:
- Updated builddeps-coreboot script to build it
- Updated build script to include it in libreboot\_bin
- Documentation: added docs/security/x60\_security.html (security
hardening for X60)