Quoting Corey Osgood corey.osgood@gmail.com:
Peter Stuge wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:08:58PM -0500, joe@smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
I am certainly interested in exhibiting coreboot. Anyone else?
I would love to help but traveling to Germany is out of the question. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help remotely.
Last year we had an idea about a competition in the booth, but time did not let it happen.
We showcased a few different CPU boards with LB and had the serial output for each board showing on a screen.
The idea was to let people guess boot times for one board each day as precisely as we could measure, and have a reset button for visitors to press while they were watching the serial output.
I would love to hear other, more fun, competition ideas, but if nothing else surfaces I think I'll try to realize the timer thing this year. :)
//Peter
A bit off-topic, but this is an idea I've been toying with for a little while now: a web-based interface to see coreboot in action. Somebody visiting the site is presented with an option, to start the "machine" (most likely QEMU) with either coreboot or the factory BIOS. They can then see the "machine" start up, and use busybox or bash to do some basic commands, look at the coreboot log, etc. I'm not a real web developer, so I have very little of an idea what it would take to do this, I just think it would be cool. Comments?
-Corey
That's a pretty cool idea Corey. I am pretty fluent in php / html. I could see something like that working, although I think you would have to account for the overhead. If you have 100 people visiting the site all trying to run the coreboot qemu, the web server would probably choke?
Thanks - Joe