Excerpts from Stefan Reinauer's message of Tue Apr 19 21:30:35 -0400 2011:
- Philippe LeCavalier support@plecavalier.com [110419 20:22]:
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If your BIOS works for you, you should consider keeping it.
Porting coreboot to a new mainboard is a significant effort and you will have to make sure you have ways to recover from failure (i.e. get your external flash writer and/or soldering iron ready)
hm. I see. I was hoping the worst case would be flashing it back to the original BIOS. A soldering gun is a bit extreme considering my current setup works just fine.
However, in some cases you can get to sub second firmware boot times with coreboot. And it is open source, so you can add or remove whatever feature you require or not.
Despite the aforementioned this is still somewhat appealing to me.
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To ensure I fully comprehend the risk here...Backing up the BIOS isn't my insurance policy; I'd actually have to replace the chip? Once I've got a clear understanding of the worst-case scenario I'll feel stronger about making a decision.