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% Libreboot 20140622 release % Leah Rowe % 22 June 2014

Release 20140622 (5th release)

  • 7th March 2014
  • revised 22nd June 2014

Officially supported

  • ThinkPad X60
  • ThinkPad X60s

Revision (22nd June 2014 - extra)

  • Documentation: added X60 Unbricking tutorial
  • Documentation: added info about enabling or disabling wifi
  • Documentation: added info about enabling or disabling trackpoint

Revision (22nd June 2014 - extra)

  • Documentation: Improved the instructions for using flashprog
  • Documentation: Improved the instructions for using cbfstool (to change the default GRUB menu)
  • Documentation: Numerous small fixes.

Revision notes (22nd June 2014)

  • updated GRUB (git 4b8b9135f1676924a8458da528d264bbc7bbb301, 20th April 2014)
  • Made "DeJavu Sans Mono" the default font in GRUB (fixes border corruption).
  • added 6 more images:
    • coreboot_ukqwerty.rom (UK Qwerty keyboard layout in GRUB)
    • coreboot_serial_ukqwerty.rom (UK Qwerty keyboard layout in GRUB)
    • coreboot_dvorak.rom (US Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB)
    • coreboot_serial_dvorak.rom (US Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB)
    • coreboot_ukdvorak.rom (UK Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB)
    • coreboot_serial_ukdvorak.rom (UK Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB)
    • (coreboot.rom and coreboot_serial.rom have US Qwerty keyboard layout in GRUB, as usual)
  • improved the documentation:
    • removed FLASH_INSTRUCTION and README.powertop and merged them with README
    • removed obsolete info from README and tidied it up
    • deleted README (replaced with docs/)
  • tidied up the menu entries in GRUB
  • tidied up the root directory of X60_source/, sorted more files into subdirectories
  • improved the commenting inside the 'build' script (should make modifying it easier)
  • Renamed X60_binary.tar.gz and X60_source.tar.gz to libreboot_bin.tar.gz and libreboot_src.tar.gz, respectively.
  • Replaced GRUB version with "FREE AS IN FREEDOM" on the GRUB start screen.
  • Added sha512.txt files in libreboot_src and libreboot_bin. (inside the archives)
  • Added libreboot_bin.tar.gz.sha512.txt and libreboot_src.tar.gz.sha512.txt files (outside of the archives)