moving back to 1vyrain bios, coreboot is cool and all but I dont think its really worth it

@TheIronFox is just lets you flash a custom bios rom without an external flasher

@TheIronFox obv levono doesnt want that but they left some flaws in the old firmwares and its possible to downgrade and abuse those flaws to gain write access to the bios region to flash something like coreboot, or typically a modified bios

mostly to bypass the wwan/wlan card whitelist

@TheIronFox calling it a jailbreak is a stretch but its not my code

@TheIronFox all chromebooks can be internally flashed but most other stuff is externally flashed, certain thinkpads can be messed for internal flashing, but other brands aren't really messed with since nothing like coreboot/libreboot is compatible, and you'd prob want to use an external programmer to develop for a new platform, if they even have a bios chip that can be written to

@TheIronFox its a pretty deep rabbit hole, at least on the chromebook side, you can find some resources here if you're interested https://mrchromebox.tech

@TheIronFox older chromebooks had a literal screw you had to remove to enable write access to the firmware, newer ones do it all in software, by removing the battery it disables the CR50 and allows you to disable write protection

chromebooks very rarely if ever need firmware updates iirc but google officially supports using a different bootloader, some devices even come with seabios already installed, it just has to be enabled and the you can chainload to it with a key combo (after switching to dev mode)