Re: [coreboot] ?

[Corey Osgood]

I don't provide any services like that myself, but I've CC'd the list and
someone there should be able to help you out ;)

Thanks,
Corey

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:39 PM, n. prince wrote:
> How do one become a coreboot vendor, do you provide classes?  thanks
>
> --- On *Wed, 2/25/09, Corey Osgood * wrote:
>
> From: Corey Osgood 
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] ?
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc: [e-mail]
> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 6:02 PM
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:55 PM, n. prince wrote:
> > Gentlemen,
> >                   I like to know if you offer a Bios with Coreboot
> > pre-installed?
>
> There are vendors who offer systems with coreboot preinstalled:
> http://www.coreboot.org/Products
> I believe Peter Stuge is still offering Gigabyte M57SLI boards with
> coreboot preinstalled as well, but you'd have to contact him directly for
> more info.
> > Can Coreboot be configured to boot in 2 sec. vs. 3?
>
> Boot times are dependent on hardware speed and the complexity of their
> initialization mechanism.
> > Might you support Amd Gigabyte multi-Bios circuitboards, Tyan
> > Thunder n3600W motherboards, and Everun notebooks, or circuitboards with
> > the Tilera 64 cpu.
>
> You can find a list of currently supported motherboards here:
> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards. Boards with Gigabyte's
> multi-BIOS system have been ported to in the past, and there's probably info
> on the web site on how it works. The Tyan board you've mentioned is not
> currently supported, but it's based on a supported chipset, so theoretically
> it shouldn't be hard to port. No Everun products are currently supported,
> and without public datasheets for the embedded controller, it's very
> difficult to support notebooks. The Tilera 64 cpu is not explicitly
> supported.
> Do you have raid solution capablity with multi-; ssd and pci express
> > cards combo capability.
>
> I don't know honestly what's required for RAID from a BIOS point of view,
> aside from the raid controller firmware, but I assume there's a payload that
> can handle it, probably SeaBIOS. See here for more info on the various
> payloads supported by coreboot: http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads
> > Also might you have an AMI Aptio alternative?
>
> I know there was some work a while back to get Tiano working with coreboot,
> but I don't know what ever happened with it. Coreboot does work with Open
> Firmware or OpenBIOS as a payload.
>
> -Corey