Re: [coreboot] Your Opinion: The Best Board for coreboot ?

[Robert Vogel]

Hi Carl-Daniel,

I'm just looking for a simple desktop solution that has as few 'closed' 
components as possible.
Enough so that it can be more trustworthy.

Last year I wrote the related page, so it isn't up to date. Correct me on 
the points that bother you though
and I'll fix it.

My question remains, which 64-bit, coreboot board would be best for a fully 
functional desktop ?
Would you expect trouble with it ?

Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" 
To: "Robert Vogel" 
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [coreboot] Your Opinion: The Best Board for coreboot ?
> On 19.03.2009 18:55, Robert Vogel wrote:
> > This weekend the Free Software Foundation is holding its annual
> > associates
> > meeting in Cambridge, Mass. Since they are mainly interested in
> > software issues, this project might not
> > interest them.
> >
> > Anyway, the question is: Which board is best for coreboot ?
>
> Best according to which metric? No closed source option ROMs? All
> features working as well as with proprietary BIOS? Support for Windows
> (after all, limiting a board to Linux only would make it non-free)?
> > http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Project_Suggestion_for_an_Open_Machine
>
> Two things strike me as rather odd:
> The FSF (or at least RMS) have demanded machines with completely free
>
> firmware although the page suggests that never happened.
> The freeappliances.org page linked from the FSF Open Machine Project
>
> page makes some rather questionable, confusing and incorrect claims. If
> you have write rights to the FSF page you mentioned, please remove that
> link to "related ideas". While probably not intended to be harmful, it
> will confuse anyone trying to learn about building/using machines
> without closed source code.
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel