Fitlet-B

[Xan]

Thanks for all the detailed answer. It's a pitty. AMD is a "devil company". What can I do? Is there anywhere which I could email them? I could finance with 10 bucks or so... the beginning... ;-)

Regards,
> So yes, there has been work done, but it has been more frustration than
> what I would call efficient development so far. There is no contract or
> funding for the fitlet port at the moment, so there is no schedule
> either, at least not from my direction.
>
> All in all, I think it is a nice compact hardware with a couple of
> different but similar enough models to make ports for. I am actually
> hoping this OEM might be the one to catch enough sales volume to have
> something to say to AMD about this binaryPI thing we constantly struggle
> with.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Kyösti Mälkki

[Xan]

As a consumer, I wrote to AMD for expressing my concern:

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Dear Sir,

Recently I adquired a Compulab fitlet B computer made of your motherboard. This product comes with a propietary BIOS and I plan to install a free one: Coreboot. But unfortunately I am not able to do that because you do not provide binaryPI information in order that Coreboot could support it [1].

As a consumer, please get into contact to Coreboot (http://www.coreboot.org) for solving this issue.

I'm looking forward to hear news from you.

Regards,
Xavier Garcia.

[1] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2015-June/080007.html
****

So, maybe (maymaymay...be) you will receive an email... ;-)

[David Hendricks]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Xan  wrote:
> Thanks for all the detailed answer. It's a pitty. AMD is a "devil
> company". What can I do?

A few simple things you can do:
1. Don't refer to a partner who has contributed to coreboot for about a
decade as a "devil company."
2. Don't reference threads/e-mails that bluster over non-existent legal
issues - That is a guaranteed way to end useful dialog.
3. Ask nicely, preferably with a business case for them to make additional
effort to support you.
> Regards,
> > So yes, there has been work done, but it has been more frustration than
> > what I would call efficient development so far. There is no contract or
> > funding for the fitlet port at the moment, so there is no schedule
> > either, at least not from my direction.
> >
> > All in all, I think it is a nice compact hardware with a couple of
> > different but similar enough models to make ports for. I am actually
> > hoping this OEM might be the one to catch enough sales volume to have
> > something to say to AMD about this binaryPI thing we constantly struggle
> > with.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Kyösti Mälkki