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I'm running coreboot on a Thinkpad W530 and I've been doing fine.
I'm encountering some overheating issues and it might be due to the subpar dynamic power management thing, but only when it's under heavy load. I am running Gentoo and would be compiling big stuff like KDE, qtwebengine, and libreoffice. Sometimes the thermal shutdown would kick in, but thing's been better with cooling pad and air conditioning. I'll probably reapply the thermal paste soon.
Whoo, that sounds bad. I hope a more aggressive fancurve could fix this, it shoould be possible using thinkfan? Never succeeded with that software and its weird old documentation.
Btw, do you have any guide for flashing? A photo of your process, the location of the chips, names, order, extracting blobs etc? Documentation is so important! I will write some for the T430 and maybe W530 for heads
The overheating isn't much of an issue in other cases. When I'm not building packages, the temperature is on safe level. I've also ran Debian & Linux Mint on it with no issue (with nouveau)
I don't have any writeup on it, unfortunately...
I mean, the fans should kick up to highest level. I remember thinkpadfancontrol on windows, great software. This never happened and on Linux I never had my fans at level 7 no matter the heat
Not the person you're replying to, but I happen to have a writeup on my blog! https://timkenhan.co/blog/20230720--w530-coreboot
Great post! I didnt get the W530 in the end as 350€ is pretty much for such an old laptop, but someone else wanted it so bad...
I destroyed my CH341A and now I got a blue one but still shipping, then I will flash my T430 which should make no problems, no NVIDIA and all
iirc last time I checked, heads does not support the nvidia GPU and will disable it. so you won't have to worry about the drivers.
Thanks! Thats good/bad hahaha
I really want to get a Clevo NV41 that has intel xe graphics and 11th gen CPU, sounds awesome. Next cool thing would be risc-v
Unrelated but can you tell me what you mean by flashing heads onto it?
Let me Google that for you XD
Okay results are really weird and not good.
Its a Coreboot distribution including verified boot, TPM or hardware key usage, so a good and controlled UEFI alternative