HP EliteBook 8760w

This page describes how to run coreboot on the HP EliteBook 8760w.

Flashing coreboot

+---------------------+------------+
| Type                | Value      |
+=====================+============+
| Socketed flash      | no         |
+---------------------+------------+
| Model               | W25Q64.V   |
+---------------------+------------+
| Size                | 8 MiB      |
+---------------------+------------+
| Package             | SOIC-8     |
+---------------------+------------+
| Write protection    | no         |
+---------------------+------------+
| Dual BIOS feature   | no         |
+---------------------+------------+
| In circuit flashing | yes        |
+---------------------+------------+
| Internal flashing   | yes        |
+---------------------+------------+

Required proprietary blobs

Flashing instructions

HP EliteBook 8760w has an 8MB SOIC-8 flash chip on the bottom of the mainboard. You just need to remove the service cover, and use an SOIC-8 clip to read and flash the chip.

8760w_chip_location

Untested

  • dock: serial port, parallel port, ...
  • TPM
  • S3 suspend/resume
  • Gigabit Ethernet

Working

  • i7-2630QM, 0+4G+8G+0
  • i7-3720QM, 8G+8G+8G+8G
  • Arch Linux boot from SeaBIOS payload
  • EHCI debug: the port is at the right side, next to the charging port
  • SATA
  • eSATA
  • USB2 and USB3
  • keyboard, touchpad, trackpad
  • WLAN
  • WWAN
  • EC ACPI
  • Using me_cleaner

Technology

+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Northbridge      | :doc:`../../northbridge/intel/sandybridge/index` |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Southbridge      | bd82x6x                                          |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| CPU              | model_206ax                                      |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Super I/O        | SMSC LPC47n217                                   |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| EC               | SMSC KBC1126                                     |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Coprocessor      | Intel Management Engine                          |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+