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% Libreboot 20140720 release % Leah Rowe % 20 July 2014

Revisions for r20140720 (3rd beta) (20th July 2014)

• 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)