Skulls scripts - how to make the seabios_free version bootsplash showing and adding secondary payloads
I was playing with the skulls scripts for the seabios_free to rebuild the coreboot image for the thinkpad x230, considering that, as reported on their github, it:
"includes the VGA BIOS SeaVGABIOS which is free software. While technically more interesting, visually this is currently not as beautiful:
The solution that I have fund is not perfect as the supported resolution by libgfxinit is limited to 1024x768, so the image is shrunk, however it does show and it works fine for me. I have replied then on this thread /issues/59
What we have to change to fix it is not the .config file present in the /x230 folder but the free-defconfig-8053595370 file to set the correct resolution to the libgfxinit adding the following:
CONFIG_LINEAR_FRAMEBUFFER_MAX_WIDTH=1024
CONFIG_LINEAR_FRAMEBUFFER_MAX_HEIGHT=768
Once done we still need to add the bootsplash image as per the seabios coreboot instructions
However I think that adding on the script something like
CONFIG_BOOTSPLASH_IMAGE=y
will make the default image to be built into the rom (but I didn't try it yet).
In any case, once you have done that you can continue personalizing... adding for example a time for the menu time wait or changing the bootsplash image, like I explain in this other article
If you are planning to personalize with a colored image your bootsplash, I would suggest to have a look into this issue
Also I have added on my github some images based on the "exploded" wallpapers (supported models are so far x220, x230, t430 and t400) ready to be used with those settings
Also modifying that file we can get built in our new rom all the secondary payloads not included in the default replacing the last 2 lines of the
CONFIG_COREINFO_SECONDARY_PAYLOAD=y
CONFIG_MEMTEST_SECONDARY_PAYLOAD=y
CONFIG_NVRAMCUI_SECONDARY_PAYLOAD=y
CONFIG_TINT_SECONDARY_PAYLOAD=y
CONFIG_MEMTEST_STABLE=y
As usual I add a video showing how it works on my x230
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