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Vendor, product	GRUB with high resolution graphics	GRUB with text-only low resolution	SeaBIOS with high resolution graphics	SeaBIOS with text-only low resolution
Acer, G43T-AM3	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Apple, MacBook 1.1	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Apple, MacBook 2.1	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Apple, iMac 5,2	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Asus, Chromebook C201	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images
Asus, KCMA-D8 with ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Asus, KCMA-D8 with non-ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Asus, KFSN4-DRE	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images	Untested
Asus, KGPE-D16 with ECC RAM	Missing images	Tested	Missing images	Untested
Asus, KGPE-D16 with non-ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Gigabyte, D945GCLF2D	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images	Fail: #66463
Gigabyte, GA-G41M-ES2L	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Intel, D410PT	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Intel, D510MO	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Intel, D945GCLF	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad R400	Tested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad R500	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad T400	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad T400S	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad T500	Tested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad T60 with intel GPU	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad W500	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad X200	Tested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad X200S	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad X200T	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad X301	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad X60	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad X60T	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo, ThinkPad X60s	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Libiquity, Taurinus X200	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Qemu, PC (i440FX)	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical, D16 with ECC RAM	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical, D16 with non-ECC RAM	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical, T400	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical, T400s	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical, T500	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical, X200	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical, X200s	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical, X200 Tablet (X200T)	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Vikings, ASUS KCMA D8 mainboard and workstation with ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Vikings, ASUS KCMA D8 mainboard and workstation with non-ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Vikings, ASUS KGPE D16 mainboard with ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Vikings, ASUS KGPE D16 mainboard with non-ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Vikings, X200	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested

• Untested: The GNU Boot maintainers are not aware of anybody who tested GNU Boot 0.1 RC5 on that computer. If you have GNU Boot on this computer please report if it works or not (for instance by opening a bug report).

• Fail: #: Someone tested GNU Boot 0.1 RC5 on that computer and it either doesn’t boot at all, can’t boot any fully free GNU/Linux distribution. It should also be confirmed that this is a software issue and not a problem with the hardware like broken RAM modules. The issue should also be described in a bug report that is available at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php? (this is the GNU Boot bug tracker).

• Tested: Someone tested GNU Boot 0.1 RC5 on that computer and reported to the GNU Boot that it at least booted fine.

• Daily users: Some people contacted the GNU Boot maintainers and volunteered to send bug reports if installing GNU Boot made the computer unusable or very hard to use (like a memory corruption that makes it impossible to boot certain GNU/Linux distributions or crashes the computer randomly). If you want to help GNU Boot with that, please contact the maintainers through a bug report.

Vendor, product	GRUB with high resolution graphics	GRUB with text-only low resolution	SeaBIOS with high resolution graphics	SeaBIOS with text-only low resolution
Acer, G43T-AM3	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Fail: #66487
Apple, MacBook 1.1	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Apple, MacBook 2.1	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Apple, iMac 5,2	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Asus, Chromebook C201	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images
Asus, KCMA-D8 with ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Asus, KCMA-D8 with non-ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Asus, KFSN4-DRE	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images	Fail: #66487
Asus, KGPE-D16 with ECC RAM	Missing images	Tested	Missing images	Fail: #66487
Asus, KGPE-D16 with non-ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Fail: #66487
Gigabyte, D945GCLF2D	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images	Fail: #66463 Fail: #66487
Gigabyte, GA-G41M-ES2L	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Fail: #66487
Intel, D410PT	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Intel, D510MO	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Fail: #66487
Intel, D945GCLF	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad R400	Tested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad R500	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad T400	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad T400S	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad T500	Tested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad T60 with intel GPU	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad W500	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad X200	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad X200S	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad X200T	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad X301	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad X60	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad X60T	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Lenovo, ThinkPad X60s	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Libiquity, Taurinus X200	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Qemu, PC (i440FX)	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Technoethical, D16 with ECC RAM	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Technoethical, D16 with non-ECC RAM	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Technoethical, T400	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Technoethical, T400s	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Technoethical, T500	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Technoethical, X200	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Technoethical, X200s	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Technoethical, X200 Tablet (X200T)	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487
Vikings, ASUS KCMA D8 mainboard and workstation with ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Vikings, ASUS KCMA D8 mainboard and workstation with non-ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Untested
Vikings, ASUS KGPE D16 mainboard with ECC RAM	Missing images	Tested	Missing images	Fail: #66487
Vikings, ASUS KGPE D16 mainboard with non-ECC RAM	Missing images	Untested	Missing images	Fail: #66487
Vikings, X200	Untested	Untested	Fail: #66487	Fail: #66487

See the status of GNU Boot 0.1 RC5 above for the meaning of the various fields.

Vendor	Product	Stability	Installation instructions	Upgrade instructions
Acer	G43T-AM3	Untested	Untested	Untested
Apple	MacBook 1.1	Untested	Untested	Untested
Apple	MacBook 2.1	Untested	Untested	Untested
Apple	iMac 5,2	Untested	Untested	Untested
Asus	Chromebook C201	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images
Asus	KCMA-D8	Untested	Untested	Untested
Asus	KFSN4-DRE	Untested	Untested	Untested
Asus	KGPE-D16	Tested	Untested	Untested
Gigabyte	D945GCLF2D	Fail: #66463	Untested	Untested
Gigabyte	GA-G41M-ES2L	Untested	Untested	Untested
Intel	D410PT	Untested	Untested	Untested
Intel	D510MO	Untested	Untested	Untested
Intel	D945GCLF	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad R400	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad R500	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad T400	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad T400S	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad T500	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad T60 with intel GPU	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad W500	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200S	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200T	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X301	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X60	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X60T	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X60s	Untested	Untested	Untested
Libiquity	Taurinus X200	Untested	Untested	Untested
Qemu	PC (i440FX)	Untested	Missing	Missing
Technoethical	D16	Tested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	T400	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	T400s	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	T500	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	X200	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	X200s	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	X200 Tablet (X200T)	Untested	Untested	Untested
Vikings	ASUS KCMA D8 mainboard and workstation	Untested	Untested	Untested
Vikings	ASUS KGPE D16 mainboard	Tested	Untested	Untested
Vikings	X200	Untested	Untested	Untested

See the status of GNU Boot 0.1 RC5 above for the meaning of the various fields.

There are no changes affecting images between GNU Boot 0.1 RC2 and GNU Boot 0.1 RC3 so it’s not worth testing the RC2. It’s better to test the RC3 directly. Yet GNU Boot maintainers tested some computers on the RC2 to reduce the risk of testers.

Vendor	Product	Stability	Install information	Upgrade information
Apple	MacBook 1.1	Untested	Untested	Untested
Apple	MacBook 2.1	Untested	Untested	Untested
Apple	iMac 5,2	Untested	Untested	Untested
Asus	Chromebook C201	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images
Asus	KCMA-D8	Untested	Untested	Untested
Asus	KFSN4-DRE	Untested	Untested	Untested
Asus	KGPE-D16	Untested	Untested	Untested
Gigabyte	D945GCLF2D	Fail: #66463	Untested	Untested
Gigabyte	GA-G41M-ES2L	Untested	Untested	Untested
Intel	D410PT	Untested	Untested	Untested
Intel	D510MO	Untested	Untested	Untested
Intel	D945GCLF	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad R400	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad R500	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad T400	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad T400S	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad T500	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad T60 with intel GPU	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad W500	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200S	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200T	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X301	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X60	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X60T	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X60s	Untested	Untested	Untested
Libiquity	Taurinus X200	Tested	Untested	Untested
Qemu	PC (i440FX)	Tested	Missing	Untested
Technoethical	D16	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	T400	Tested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	T400s	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	T500	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	X200	Tested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	X200s	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	X200 Tablet (X200T)	Untested	Untested	Untested
Vikings	ASUS KCMA D8 mainboard and workstation	Untested	Untested	Untested
Vikings	ASUS KGPE D16 mainboard	Untested	Untested	Untested
Vikings	X200	Tested	Untested	Untested

See the status of GNU Boot 0.1 RC5 above for the meaning of the various fields.

Vendor	Product	Stability	Install information	Upgrade information
Apple	MacBook 1.1	Untested	Untested	Untested
Apple	MacBook 2.1	Tested	Untested	Untested
Apple	iMac 5,2	Untested	Untested	Untested
Asus	Chromebook C201	Missing images	Missing images	Missing images
Asus	KCMA-D8	Untested	Untested	Untested
Asus	KFSN4-DRE	Untested	Untested	Untested
Asus	KGPE-D16	Tested	Untested	Untested
Gigabyte	D945GCLF2D	Fail: #66463	Untested	Untested
Gigabyte	GA-G41M-ES2L	Untested	Untested	Untested
Intel	D410PT	Untested	Untested	Untested
Intel	D510MO	Untested	Untested	Untested
Intel	D945GCLF	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad R400	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad R500	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad T400	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad T400S	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad T500	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad T60 with intel GPU	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad W500	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200S	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200T	Untested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X301	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X60	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X60T	Tested	Untested	Untested
Lenovo	ThinkPad X60s	Untested	Untested	Untested
Libiquity	Taurinus X200	Tested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	D16	Tested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	T400	Tested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	T400s	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	T500	Tested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	X200	Tested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	X200s	Untested	Untested	Untested
Technoethical	X200 Tablet (X200T)	Untested	Untested	Untested
Vikings	ASUS KCMA D8 mainboard and workstation	Untested	Untested	Untested
Vikings	ASUS KGPE D16 mainboard	Tested	Untested	Untested
Vikings	X200	Tested	Untested	Untested

See the status of GNU Boot 0.1 RC5 above for the meaning of the various fields.

Vendor	Product	Coreboot status	Coreboot GPU driver
Apple	MacBook 1.1	Maintained	old GPU driver
Apple	MacBook 2.1	Maintained	old GPU driver
Apple	iMac 5,2	Maintained	old GPU driver
Asus	Chromebook C201	Unmaintained
Asus	KCMA-D8	Removed
Asus	KFSN4-DRE	Removed
Asus	KGPE-D16	Removed
Gigabyte	D945GCLF2D	Similar to Intel D945GCLF
Gigabyte	GA-G41M-ES2L	Unmaintained
Intel	D410PT	Unmaintained
Intel	D510MO	Unmaintained
Intel	D945GCLF	Unmaintained	new GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad R400	Maintained	new GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad R500	Maintained	new GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad T400	Maintained	new GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad T400s	Similar to ThinkPad T400	new GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad T500	Maintained	new GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad T60 with intel GPU	Maintained	old GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad W500	Maintained	new GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200	Maintained	new GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200s	Maintained	new GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200T	Maintained	new GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad X301	Maintained	new GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad X60	Maintained	old GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad X60T	Maintained	old GPU driver
Lenovo	ThinkPad X60s	Maintained	old GPU driver

• Maintained / Unmaintained: GNU Boot depends on Coreboot to support specific computers. So if Coreboot stops supporting a computer that GNU Boot supports, then it will become harder and harder to support that computer in GNU Boot over time and at some point GNU Boot will likely stop supporting it unless someone adds back that computer in Coreboot. And if a computer has no maintainer in Coreboot it increases the likelihood that it will be removed at some point.

• Removed: Coreboot already removed the support for this computer.

• Similar to : There is no official support for this computer in Coreboot but using the code from the other computer mentioned works.

• old GPU driver / new GPU driver: Some computers uses an old GPU driver written in C that could have some stability issues that were fixed in the new GPU driver written in ADA. When the field is blank, it means that we didn’t look at which GPU driver was used or its stability.

Upstream project	Version	Needs deblobbing	Computers using it
Coreboot	4.11+	Yes	Asus: KCMA-D8, KFSN4, KGPE-D16
Coreboot	4.15+	Yes	All but Asus KCMA-D8, KFSN4, KGPE-D16.
GRUB	2.06+	No	All supported computers
Memtest86+ for Coreboot	v002+	No	All but Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L and Intel D510MO
SeaBIOS	1.14.0+	No	All supported computers

This tracks the status of reproducible builds in GNU Boot.

See Building GNU Boot from source chapter in the GNU Boot manual for more details about this issue.

Also note that the table below is meant for the GNU Boot images which is what gets installed and what interest more users.

Provenance	Path inside the image	Reproducible	Usage
Coreboot	CBFS headers	Unknown	all images
Coreboot	/bootblock	Unknown	all images
Coreboot	/build_info	Unknown	all images
Coreboot	/cmos.default	Unknown	all but 16MB macbook images
Coreboot	/cmos_layout.bin	Unknown	all images
Coreboot	/config	Unknown	all images
Coreboot	/data_ccfl.vbt	N/A: not built	all images
Coreboot	/data_led.vbt	N/A: not built	all images
Coreboot	/vbt.bin	Unknown	computers with Intel GPU
Coreboot	/fallback/dsdt.aml	Unknown	all images
Coreboot	/fallback/postcar	Unknown	all but KGPE-D16 and KCMA-D8
Coreboot	/fallback/ramstage	Unknown	all images
Coreboot	/fallback/romstage	Unknown	all images
Coreboot	/revision	Unknown	all images
Coreboot	/rt8168-macaddress	Unknown	all images
GRUB	/fallback/payload	Unknown	GRUB images
GRUB	/img/grub2	Unknown	SeaBIOS images
Memtest86+ for Coreboot	/img/memtest	Unknown	more than half of the images
SeaBIOS	/fallback/payload	Unknown	SeaBIOS images
SeaBIOS	/vgaroms/seavgabios.bin	Unknown	all images
ich9gen	Intel flash descriptor	Yes: verified by checksum	GM45 ThinkPads
ich9gen	Intel Gigabit ethernet partition	Yes: verified by checksum	GM45 ThinkPads
GNU Boot build system	/background.png	Unknown	all but d945gclf and kfsn4-dre
GNU Boot build system	/etc/only-load-option-roms	Unknown	all images
GNU Boot build system	/etc/optionroms-checksum	Unknown	all images
GNU Boot build system	/etc/pci-optionrom-exec	Unknown	all images
GNU Boot build system	/etc/ps2-keyboard-spinup	Unknown	all images
GNU Boot build system	/grub.cfg	Unknown	all but d945gclf and kfsn4-dre
GNU Boot build system	/grubtest.cfg	Unknown	kfsn4-dre
GNU Boot build system	pci1000,0072.rom	N/A: empty file	KGPE-D16 and KCMA-D8
GNU Boot build system	pci1000,3050.rom	N/A: empty file	KGPE-D16 and KCMA-D8

Also note that not everything is in the table above:

• The gnuboot-trisquel-grub.img file, which is produced by GNU Boot and that is used during the automatic tests is reproducible. It can be used as an example to make other components built with Guix reproducible.

Component	Limitations	Bug number
SeaBIOS images	No VGA support => Require to edit /etc/default/grub	#65922
Install instructions	Only for technical people
Upgrade instructions	Only for technical people
Website	No proper manual
Website	Many unreviewed pages

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