NovaCustom V560TU 14th Gen Dasharo (coreboot + heads) Release Notes
This document contains the release notes for Heads firmware for NovaCustom V560TU series of laptops.
For details about our release process please read Dasharo Standard Release Process.
v0.9.0 - 2025-01-30
Test results for this release can be found here.
Added
- Support for Novacustom V56 (v560tu)
- Configured correct clock for GbE on Clevo/MTL-H
- Fixed touchpad IRQ pin assignment on Clevo/MTL-H
- Adjusted ACPI configuration to fix missing CNVi pinmux
- Meteor Lake graphics operations integrated into SoC
- Clevo/MTL-H PCIe root port flags added
- Windows BSOD caused by missing ACPI device names
- RTC failure workaround for MRC fastboot
- SPD size correctly set for Clevo/MTL-H
- Corrected temperature control offsets in Meteor Lake
- Fixed duplicate temperature symbol in Kconfig
- Introduced Quiet Mode for reduced technical output in logs
- Added TPM extend operations logging while maintaining quiet mode
- Added support for GPG Admin/User PIN output grabbing for Nitrokey HOTP verification
- Integrated EFF Diceware short wordlist v2 for easier passphrase generation
- Introduced automatic Secrets App reset logic for Nitrokey 3
- Unified and enhanced passphrase generation logic in recovery shell
- Quiet Mode now logs all technical details to /tmp/debug.log instead of showing them in the console
- Improved TPM2 primary handle debugging and error handling
- Refactored the OEM Factory Reset process to clarify mode-based security implications
- Improved kexec boot configuration handling with enhanced security warnings
- Transitioned from
ashshell tobashfor improved scripting consistency - Suppressed unnecessary grep errors for missing
/etc/config.user - Resolved logging inconsistencies when performing TPM resets
- Fixed Secure App PIN handling during Nitrokey 3 re-ownership
- Corrected Diceware dictionary parsing and selection method for unbiased passphrase generation
- Eliminated redundant USB Security dongle detection messages
Known issues
- Some unexpected errors in dmesg
- Performance increase for -TU Series (comparison with NVIDIA variants) - coreboot issue
Binaries
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SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)
- Dasharo heads fork based on v0.2.1 revision bbbca5d4
- Dasharo fork of System76 EC based on 485f3900 revision 368e08e0
- vboot based on 3d37d2aa revision 3d37d2aa
- Intel Management Engine version v18.0.5.2040
- Intel Flash Descriptor version v1.0
- Intel microcode version MTL C0 0x1c 03/01/2024
- Intel Firmware Support Package for Meteor Lake-H version 2024/04/30 v4122_12