Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot

Sure, USA citizens are not allowed to reverse engineer ...yes we are? After all, that's how the whole IBM PC-compatible industry started. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies#Cloning_t... AFAIK the later Thinkpads including this one uses a Phoenix BIOS, so it's amusing to see the circularity of how things turned out; and continuing on that path, Phoenix sold its BIOS business to Lenovo a little earlier this year.

100% believe this one. The good thing about Wacom devices is that they're actually quite simple to deal with. All of the Wacom devices use a simple packet-based format that, while it varies per model, is quite well documented, what with being in the Linux kernel and several user mode tablet drivers (including OpenTabletDriver and TabletMagic.) You really don't need reverse engineering for Wacom, from old serial Graphires to the latest Intuous'. The knowledge, or at least certainly knowledge of w…

In early 2018, before I had children and with much, MUCH more free time, I bought a used X61, plus a used X60 1400x1050 LCD, a new backlight, new internal stereo speakers, a new mainboard with an Intel Core i7-5600U from 51NB, plus new SSD, 32 GB RAM, and the original IBM logo of a X60 which was replaced by a Lenovo logo on my chassis. It's the exact same setup as mentioned here [0], except that I built it myself from the individual parts for cost reasons. The board arrived from Shenzhen after…

I had a ThinkPad X61T for a while, and assembled a full set of accessories for it, but it ran hot, and I never managed to get Wacom EMR stylus support in Mac OS working (bought it to be a Hackintosh). I really wish that there was an updated ThinkPad which supported the current generation of styluses (was looking at an x230T until I got my Samsung Galaxy Book 12 and Staedtler Noris Digital Stylus).