Re: Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)
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On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 09:08 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote:
> Hi Debian developers,
>
> Following on from DebConf 2020 (which I thoroughly enjoyed - thank you!)
> the Lenovo portal that was announced is now available:
Hi Mark, and many thanks!
>
> US: http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/Linux
> Canada: http://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/linuxca
I've tried registering on the US website and it seems to work fine here. I'm
not completely sure how explicit the “rebate” is (and with the LABORDAY coupon
currently on the “standard” website it's not easy to compare). Anyway I didn't
investigate further because I'm from Europe so I'll wait a bit.
> We're still working on getting other geographies up and running - not
> available yet I'm afraid.
Any idea of the timeframe? Weeks, months, more?
> You should just be able to register with your debian.org email address
> to get the discount on any Lenovo equipment. Do let me know if any
> problems.
Worked just fine for me at least.
>
> We also have our first Linux platform up (X1 Carbon Gen 8 with Fedora).
> There should be a number of other platforms coming soon - we're working
> on those and I expect them to be out in the next few weeks. If you have
> any questions on our Linux platforms please let me know.
Actually I do, although it's not entirely linked to Linux. When configuring an
Intel platform there are two choices which are not always there but would be
interesting I think:
- - Disabling of Absolute bios agent
- - Activation of the High Assurance Platform bit (HAP) in the Intel ME
configuration
On the X1C configuration I tried, the “Absolute” stuff is there but one can't
change it. For the HAP the snippet is not there at all (although I think I
remember seeing it once)
Again thanks for the work enabling the portal.
Regards,
- --
Yves-Alexis
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