Making coreboot more accessible to end-users - ideas?

I am mainly looking for opinions from both average sysadmins and power-users
Here are two sample questions and my replies.

What stops you or has stopped you from using coreboot on your primary 
machines?
(Gaming - It needs to play the latest games if I am to spend decent 
money on it as I don't have a good job right now - my D16 was my first 
purchase/flash once I found out I could do that and now I have a few 
other CB boards for other uses after I found out how really accessible 
coreboot is.)

How can the end-user documentation be improved?

What advantages are you looking for in a system that has open source 
(including init) firmware?
(Me - freedom, repair-ability and semi-obscure features like IOMMU that 
actually work and can be easily fixed if they don't)

Some things I have done so far:
Recommended cpus list for several popular boards, as buying a low end 
CPU then having unsatisfactory performance turns people away.
Board notes to provide warnings and advisories for coreboot/board 
"gotchas" that discourage people, such as not knowing they need to run 
fancontrol to have a quiet system

Things I want to do:
payload menuconfig for common payload configurations such as disabling 
option roms, loading grub.cfg's from disks, etc.
List of boards with verified special functionality (iommu, egpu, etc)

[Peter Stuge]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Things I want to do:
> payload menuconfig for common payload configurations such as disabling 
> option roms, loading grub.cfg's from disks, etc.
> List of boards with verified special functionality (iommu, egpu, etc)

That sounds great!

//Peter

[Philipp Stanner]

Am 07.08.2017 um 23:50 schrieb [e-mail]:
> How can the end-user documentation be improved?

Hey. Great that you're interested in this special task.

For me as a non-contributing user much trouble occurs when trying to 
build anything beside SeaBIOS (Grub and FILO especially). Maybe a little 
tutorial about building these payloads would be cool. Especially the 
FILO docu is a bit thin. How do you configure it? What would be the main 
advantages over GRUB? etc.
> What advantages are you looking for in a system that has open source 
> (including init) firmware?
> (Me - freedom, repair-ability and semi-obscure features like IOMMU 
> that actually work and can be easily fixed if they don't)

Personally I'm a great fan of technological efficiency in all my 
devices. I hate unnecessary crap laying around. When learning about x86 
I always hated the fact that there's so much useless old stuff, that 
there's a BIOS and therefore some kind of second OS on a system while 
you actually only need one. That's why I like coreboot: Start the main 
board, give control to the OS and then be a nice firmware and go back to 
your flash-rom ;)
I'm not as concerned about security and freedom as most of the other 
people probably. Unnecessary madness like the Intel Management Engine 
creeps me out a little bit, though.

P.