For really practical use of coreboot the mainboards need to come loaded and supported from the vendor. That's what I've been pushing on for the last few years.
And vendors are starting to listen -- not because of me, I suspect, but because of their other customers. There are Tier 1 vendors out there talking and others are now telling me they can give me systems with coreboot already on them and that they have coreboot capable people on staff. This is a huge change.
None too soon: ARMs are becoming a key part of the server systems available this year and they already have a free bios -- U-boot -- which is one important advantage over x86 systems for many customers. At some point the x86 universe will wake up and realize it has a new competitor, one that is just a bit more open in many ways.
Not surprisingly the "EFI for ARM" concept has not gotten very far; I think people want to know what's running on their machines.
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