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		mjg59 on March 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thinkpad X210 >Not going to lie, that’s pretty horrible. The stock firmware is, uh, not good. I ported Coreboot to the second batch boards (https://github.com/mjg59/coreboot/tree/X210_good ) and things improved significantly - I wrote it up at https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/50924.html

detaro on March 17, 2019 | [–]

first link should have a lowercase x: https://github.com/mjg59/coreboot/tree/x210_good

bubblethink on March 17, 2019 | [–]

Does it use the regular thinkpad EC, or is that also something custom ?

mjg59 on March 17, 2019 | [–]

It's a custom EC running some pretty shitty firmware

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