Byte Mk II

Specs

  • CPU (full processor specs available at https://ark.intel.com)

    • Intel N200 (Alder Lake)

  • EC

    • ITE IT5570E

    • Charger, using AC adapter or USB-C PD

    • Suspend / resume

  • GPU

    • Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics

    • GOP driver is recommended, VBT is provided

    • HDMI video

    • DisplayPort video

    • USB-C DisplayPort video

  • Memory

    • 1 x DDR4 SODIMM

  • Networking

    • 9560 2230 WiFi / Bluetooth

    • Realtek RLT8111 1Gbps

    • Realtek RLT8125B 2.5Gbps

  • Sound

    • SoundWire SN6140

    • Combined headphone / microphone 3.5-mm jack

    • HDMI audio

    • USB-C DisplayPort audio

  • Storage

    • M.2 PCIe SSD

  • USB

    • 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A (front)

    • 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C (front)

    • 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A (back)

Building coreboot

Please follow the Star Labs build instructions to build coreboot, using config.starlabs_byte_adl as config file.

Preliminaries

Prior to building coreboot the following files are required:

  • Intel Flash Descriptor file (descriptor.bin)

  • Intel Management Engine firmware (me.bin)

  • ITE Embedded Controller firmware (ec.bin)

The files listed below are optional:

  • Splash screen image in Windows 3.1 BMP format (Logo.bmp)

These files exist in the correct location in the StarLabsLtd/blobs repo on GitHub which is used in place of the standard 3rdparty/blobs repo.

Build

The following commands will build a working image:

make distclean
make defconfig KBUILD_DEFCONFIG=configs/config.starlabs_byte_adl
make

Flashing coreboot

Type

Value

Socketed flash

no

Vendor

Winbond

Model

W25Q256.V

Size

32 MiB

Package

SOIC-8

Internal flashing

yes

External flashing

yes

Please see here for instructions on how to flash with fwupd.