Coreboot Lands Support For AMD's Olive Hill+ Board

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Coreboot Lands Support For AMD's Olive Hill+ Board

Just days after support for AMD's Steppe Eagle SoC landed in Coreboot, the first motherboard for this embedded G-Series SoC is now supported by mainline Coreboot...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc4MDc

[coder111]

When do we get Coreboot AMD Laptops?

I wish there were laptops on the market that had AMD APUs and maybe dGPUs, and that would run Coreboot...

Hell, I wish there were more laptops with AMD APUs in general. There is a bunch of cheap small ones, but when it comes to A8-A10 higher-end APUs, selection becomes very slim. Especially here in Europe.

[Adarion]

100% seconded.
It is a rare occasion to obtain AMD powered note/netbooks. Furthermore, try to get them with a non-glare screen (reduces choice to few), then with battery runtime and non cheapo parts or low res displays. Not a chance. If you then dare to dream of a device that does not include a MS Windows license... phew.
There were a few devices which might have been all that (besides a high res / IPS display) but they all had some obstacle that was a showstopper for coreboot build in. Something non-exchangeable.

The only thing you can obtain already w. coreboot are some industrial mainboards which are very expensive and often of little use for normal people (if you want to build a HTPC, SOHO fileserver and so on). It just sucks sometimes.

[Ibidem]

100% seconded.
It is a rare occasion to obtain AMD powered note/netbooks. Furthermore, try to get them with a non-glare screen (reduces choice to few), then with battery runtime and non cheapo parts or low res displays. Not a chance. If you then dare to dream of a device that does not include a MS Windows license... phew.
There were a few devices which might have been all that (besides a high res / IPS display) but they all had some obstacle that was a showstopper for coreboot build in. Something non-exchangeable.

The only thing you can obtain already w. coreboot are some industrial mainboards which are very expensive and often of little use for normal people (if you want to build a HTPC, SOHO fileserver and so on). It just sucks sometimes.

The Lenovo Thinkpad X1xxe series was semi-decent. I had the earliest (X100e), which offered a Neo single or dual core (64-bit with virtualization in a $400 laptop in 2010), an HD3200M for graphics, 11.6" non-glare screen @1366x768, unofficially up to 8 GB RAM, 6 cell battery that could* last 5 hours (*the usual disclaimer applies: under lighter use with settings optimized...; I got ~3 hours on Linux) with a 9-cell available.
The big downfall technically speaking was that it was very undercooled; that dual-core should never have gone in there.
Just after I got it, they came out with the X120e: HD4xxx graphics, HDMI out, and a slightly newer CPU that ran a lot cooler and a lot longer. To be precise, it was among the the first AMD Fusion laptops.
(If I had had the money, I would have grabbed the board for one of those and swapped it in. It got OpenCL work, UVD, and all the other neat stuff...)
Then the X121e used an E-series (now, the X121e usually comes with an i3).
The X121e seems to be rather degenerate for a Thinkpad, though.
Now they have an X140e ([email protected] or [email protected] Ghz and a Radeon HD83xx GPU), which is not really different apart from the CPU/GPU.

There was someone talking about porting Coreboot to the X100/X120, but it never happened. The X2xx series got that.