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From: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:01:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] news page listing recent ports

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