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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="description" content="Notice regarding ASUS KGPE-D16 in the Libreboot project."> <meta name="keywords" content="libreboot, coreboot, canoeboot, opensource, libre, free software, bios, uefi"> <meta name="generator" content="pandoc"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://libreboot.org/news/kgpe-d16.html" />  <meta property="og:title" content="Libreboot – ASUS KGPE-D16 hardware donation needed"> <meta property="og:type" content="article" /> <meta property="og:image" content="https://av.vimuser.org/bootmenu.jpg"> <meta property="og:url" content="https://libreboot.org/news/kgpe-d16.html"> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image"> <meta property="og:description" content="Libreboot – ASUS KGPE-D16 hardware donation needed"> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Libreboot – ASUS KGPE-D16 hardware donation needed"> <meta name="twitter:image:alt" content="Libreboot – ASUS KGPE-D16 hardware donation needed"> <meta name="author" content="Leah Rowe"> <meta name="dcterms.date" content="2023-03-30"> <title>Libreboot – ASUS KGPE-D16 hardware donation needed</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/global.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href=""> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed" href="/feed.xml"/> </head> <body> <div class="page"> <header> <div class="title" onclick="location.href='/';"> <p class="title-logo"> <a href="/"><img loading="lazy" class="title-logo" alt="Libreboot logo" src="/favicon.ico" /></a> </p> <h1 class="title">ASUS KGPE-D16 hardware donation needed</h1> </div> <p class="author">Leah Rowe</p> <p class="date">30 March 2023</p> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/faq.html">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="/download.html">Download</a></li> <li><a href="/git.html">Git</a></li> <li style="font-size:1.3em;"><em><strong><a href="https://minifree.org/">Buy Libreboot preinstalled</a></strong></em></li> <li><a href="/docs/install/">Install</a></li> <li><a href="/docs/">Docs</a></li> <li><a href="/news/">News</a></li> <li><a href="https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues">Bugs</a></li> <li><a href="/contact.html">Contact</a></li> <li style="font-size:1.3em;"><em><strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/libreleah">Donate</a></strong></em></li> <li><a href="/other.html">Other coreboot distros</a></li> </ul> <hr/> </header> <nav id="TOC"> <h2>Navigate this page:</h2> <ul> <li><a href="#please-donate-a-d16-machine-if-you-can">Please donate a D16 machine if you can</a> <ul> <li><a href="#kcma-d8-also-needed">KCMA-D8 also needed</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="#how-i-plan-to-re-add">How I plan to re-add</a></li> </ul> </nav> <div class="pagetext"> <p><a href="./">Return to index</a></p> <p>Article published by: Leah Rowe</p> <p>Date of publication: 30 March 2023</p> <p><strong>UPDATE: I have this board now. I do not require donation anymore.</strong></p> <div class="h"><h2 id="please-donate-a-d16-machine-if-you-can">Please donate a D16 machine if you can</h2><a aria-hidden="true" href="#please-donate-a-d16-machine-if-you-can">[link]</a></div> <p>If someone can donate one to me, that would be a great service to the Libreboot project. Preferably assembled, with CPU, cooler, working RAM (in coreboot), in a case with PSU… throw in a graphics card if you can.</p> <p>ASUS KGPE-D16 support was removed from Libreboot a while ago, because I didn’t have enough testers to be confident in providing ROM images for it.</p> <p>I would like to re-add support for ASUS KGPE-D16 in a future Libreboot release, but this time I’d like to be able to test it myself.</p> <p>I don’t currently have a KGPE-D16 set up at my lab, because finding parts and (especially) the coolers is a challenge, to say the least.</p> <p>If you would like to help, and have a machine to spare, please can you contact me at my email address: <a href="mailto:info@minifree.org">info@minifree.org</a></p> <div class="h"><h3 id="kcma-d8-also-needed">KCMA-D8 also needed</h3><a aria-hidden="true" href="#kcma-d8-also-needed">[link]</a></div> <p>I’m also arranging for an assembled machine with KCMA-D8 in it to be sent to me - though I’m not yet sure if that will go through, so if you have one of those as well, I’d be interested too.</p> <div class="h"><h2 id="how-i-plan-to-re-add">How I plan to re-add</h2><a aria-hidden="true" href="#how-i-plan-to-re-add">[link]</a></div> <p>Dasharo produces updated coreboot images for KGPE-D16, with source code. They took coreboot from release 4.11 and updated the code. I plan to add support in lbmk (Libreboot’s build system) for using other coreboot repositories besides the official one, when downloading, patching and compiling for each board.</p> <p>In other words, I would integrate Dasharo’s coreboot repository in Libreboot, alongside the default one on coreboot.org.</p> <p>As far as I know, Dasharo does not yet work on KCMA-D8 (that was the case, last time I checked), but I could inspect code differences between D8/D16 in coreboot’s branch <code>4.11_branch</code> and try to port those to Dasharo, to then put in Libreboot.</p> <p>Failing that (for KCMA-D8), I would just use <code>4.11_branch</code> from coreboot. D8/D16 support was dropped in coreboot after release 4.11, but updated code mostly fixing compiler issues and such, is available in a branch off of 4.11 called <code>4.11_branch</code>.</p> <p>When Libreboot dropped support for D8/D16, it wasn’t using <code>4.11_branch</code>. 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