Journal of Timothy Kenno Handojo

Building a W530 with coreboot

While waiting for the parts to get shipped to me, I played with the BIOS flash, trying to get coreboot on it as I did with the X230.

Acquiring BIOS blobs

Like the X230, this one comes with two flash chips. The difference is that instead of positioned top & bottom, this one is left & right.

The...

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Building a W530 Laptop From Parts

Got myself a Thinkpad W530 motherboard with K2000M with my name on it.

w530-motherboard

Literally!

I initially bought this motherboard to replace the original one in my existing W530 laptop with K1000M GPU. I even took it apart and got the motherboard out. However, I wasn't able to get it to work somehow. As I...

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Gaming with Steam on Gentoo

I'll open this new year with some new topic.

Well, it's not exactly new, but I've never touched upon it here, so here we go...

I've been gaming with Steam on my Gentoo system.

As we may have known, Linux support on Steam keeps on improving day by day. Proton is such a godsend, as it allows W...

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Adding Linux Payload Into Coreboot

Continuing from the last post on Buildroot, I wanted to see if I can have it on my ROM.

The idea is to hav a tiny, self-contained Linux system that can be booted without any drives.

I am yet satisfied with the BIOS. I wanted to see how far I can take this by adding a bootable Linux system onto t...

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Building Minimal Linux with Buildroot

In another episode of my experimentation, I was back again tinkering with my X230. This time I tried out Buildroot.

Buildroot is a set of tools to build a tiny complete Linux system from scratch. From the tarball, you can create a bzImage with integrated initramfs that has everything you want to i...

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