@Sven I’ve read that you have two T430 each with the i7-3840qm.
In 1vyrain there’s the option to limit the TDP of the T430. Have you, or anyone else, tried something similar in Heads (like underclocking) to reduce the heat that’s coming from the CPU?
Definitely looking forward to your post!
Thinking about upgrading my T430 (fhd upgrade + i7 = ~$300), but I came to the conclusion that maybe a Lenovo P50 would be a better investment in terms of CPU and especially memory…Not to forget the incredibly fast NVMe drive slots! Most importantly it seems to work well with Qubes too.
But I’ll never give up my T430
Self-flashed t430 with heads-hotp-maximized. The Nitrokey USB dongle works great with this machine. Using edited thinkfan profile so the fans reach full-tilt when temps reach 70 degrees.
Is there any protection against specter/meltdown in T430 processors? Xen/Coreboot probably can’t mitigate these vulnerabilities, do I understand correctly?
Thank you all so much for all the information provided in this thread.
I am at the moment in the process of building and costumizing my own Thinkpad T430.
In this context I have a non-Qubes-specific question I cant find information on and wondered if someone here might be able to help.
At the moment I have flashed Skulls via 1vyrain and am not finding information whether this also removes the Wlan-Whitelist.
Has someone flashed their Thinkpad via 1vyrain with Skulls and replaced the Wlan-Card with something better like the AX200HMW and can report whether or not the card works?
At the moment I have flashed Skulls via 1vyrain and am not finding
information whether this also removes the Wlan-Whitelist.
I believe it should, but have no real experience with 1vyrain or Skulls.
“* Whitelist removal to use any WLAN/WWAN adapter”
Has someone flashed their Thinkpad via 1vyrain with Skulls and replaced
the Wlan-Card with something better like the AX200HMW and can report
whether or not the card works?
Sorry can’t help here, I’ve used neither 1vyrain with Skulls or
experimented with an AX200HMW. Maybe @Sven will have better tips.
I heard that 5(,5)V is only a problem if you always hardware flash every update, not for one time flashing,as from then one software flashing is possible
I want to convert this to a script that fails when one thing in the chain fails. For that it would be great to also have the test with reading the bios image and comparing the diff or some hashsums like sha256.
Also, there is no python python2 in debian, as well as no python command, at least for me. I used python3 instead and it worked.
Now when trying to build the image I get the error:
Makefile:170: *** "t430-maximized: neither CONFIG_COREBOOT nor CONFIG_LINUXBOOT is set?". Stop.
This means your docker build cannot find the coreboot config file pointed by the board configuration file. This is relative path to local heads directory, not sure what is happening with docker there.
hm, I am not using Docker but podman in Distrobox. Not sure if this is a difference. The Distrobox containers have full homedir access.
Lol… I think I burnt my programmer? tried to measure some voltages while plugged in, and I may have bridged some wrong things? Now its not showing up in lsusb anymore and flashrom doesnt work.
I guess I will get “the blue variant” then, but what is that? This one? It looks completely different from mine
For docker, sorry but cannot support all methods nor OSes as of now until Heads upstreams fixes the issue by binding with nixos layer with fixated packages list, creating the exact host layer needed to build reproducibility. Tired of fixing things that breaks again later on because packages upgrades on host images. Then a docker/podman might be created, but goal is to create reproducible host builds tack to create reproducible output. Until then, only debian 11 is supported where CircleCI config can be reviewed to install debian 11 needed tools to build reproducible and even then its not yet perfect.
Podman/docker/container: same thing in my opinion.
Hey there, I’ve been following the community hardware list and certified builds for a few weeks, looking at all options. I’m just wondering if you’re going to be updating your website with new options in the near future?