On 11.12.2008 22:02, pk wrote:
ron minnich wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Jordan Crouse jordan@cosmicpenguin.net wrote:
This is only my opinion, so take it as you will, but I think that the only path to success is through the vendors first, and the end users second.
I could not agree more.
+1.
Although, as mentioned, Anandtech seems to have some influence with the vendors. They also seem to be open to alternative technologies; for instance, they have performed some benchmarks using gnu/linux, they have even tried an alternative bios (albeit on modified xbox machines): http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2271
Just a thought: What would they think of the demos you presented at the google tech talk? Would it hurt to talk to them about the potentials, explaining the current situation?
I think a demo with a readily available board would be nice. Especially if the demo is accompanied with ready-to-burn images. I know that we had better benchmark results than Vendor BIOS for some chipsets/processors, but I am not aware of any recent benchmarking.
The reason I'm kind of insisting on ready-to-burn images is that I want Anandtech to be able to verify this on their own boards in their own lab and to make it clear that coreboot is not just vaporware.
Regards, Carl-Daniel