GNU Boot – Libreboot 20140720 release
Author: Leah Rowe
Date: 2014-07-20

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Article published by: Leah Rowe

Date of publication: 20 July 2014

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

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- 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)

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