Hello Ron,
ron minnich wrote (ao):
There's more and more interest in the last two years in coreboot. Customers really want it.
It's just that PC vendors are worried about providing it for some reason.
PC vendors need to be careful, they're building closed ecosystems now around the PC platform. It's quite amazing how much more closed the PC platform is than it was in 1994 or even 1999.
Closed ecosystems die.
Here at linuxcon and other recent conferences, all the real innovation and cool stuff is ARM-based. PCs are those big, expensive, hot, closed things that you're not allowed to hack. Really wonderful stuff being done on OMAP 35.
Pardon my ignorance, but there is no Coreboot for ARM based hardware AFAICS?
On the OpenMoko Freerunner one boots with 'u-boot'. U-boot is a bootloader, and as such not comparable with Coreboot I think. Does ARM have BIOS firmware at all? I've googled but failed to find the answer.
Please feel free to ignore me is this is too off topic.
Sander