Re: [coreboot] Please tell us more about Falco, Peppy, Slippy, Bold and Pit!

[Aaron Durbin]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Gregg Levine  wrote:
> Hello!
> Gabe, you can't add that.... Both were destroyed, and the plans were
> misplaced..... We're looking into why they were misplaced.
>
> Aaron a question. A reference platform is just that, a platform
> created to test out a specific operating system or a family of
> systems, but its only designed to be used within the firms R&D
> facility. Is this correct?

In this case these are hardware reference platforms for ChromeOS. So the latter.
> Something of a sort came up early in the Coreboot period, about the
> time AMD actually committed to being interested, as it happens.
>
> Gregg C Levine [e-mail]
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Gabe Black  wrote:
> > Only if you get it with the optional orbital laser platform. We can't answer
> > questions like that.
> >
> > Gabe
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:55 PM, mrnuke  wrote:
> > > On 12/05/2013 06:11 PM, David Hendricks wrote:
> > > > Pit is yet-to-be-released and uses the Samsung Exynos5420 octa-core
> > > > (big.LITTLE) SoC.
> > >
> > > Am I reading that "octa" correctly? How does it perform in terms of
> > > running your average distro with your average desktop environment?
> > >
> > > Is this a laptop?
> > >  Does it come with a decent display (both in terms of quality and size)?
> > >  Does it have a backlit keyboard?
> > >  Good speakers?
> > >  Big battery?
> > >  Upgradeable RAM?
> > >  Upgradeable SSD (mSATA or 2.5")?
> > >
> > > Will it massage my back?
> > > Increase the resale value of my home?
> > > Give me a bigger toy?
> > > Get me to Cuba?
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Alex