On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:16 AM Yurii Shevtsov ungetch@gmail.com wrote:
I looked at sites you mentioned. I haven't any configuration feature on johnlewis.ie Instead it provides an instruction for running special shell script. But I much more liked original Rom-o-matic. I want do develop same thing, but with fancier design, if you mind) I have more questions:
How important this project for coreboot community is?
well, that's a tough question. Back in 2000 when we first did it, it was very important. At this point, coreboot is mostly two user communities: people who use it and don't know and don't care (chromebooks); and people who are dedicated hackers and know the insides so well they don't need rom-o-matic. Those who don't know anything and don't care they're using coreboot probably outnumber knowledgable people by about 10,000 to 1 at least [based on the 10m+ systems shipped at this point with coreboot, and my guess that the coreboot hacker community is unlikely to be as many as 1000 people).
The number of people who don't know anything and can use a rom-o-matic is probably numbered in single digits, because even to use rom-o-matic you have to be knowledgable enough that you might as well build your own coreboot. You certainly have to have a path out if something goes wrong, and at that point you are cracking open your laptop. A failed coreboot install is not like a failed OS install. It's more like destroying your mainboard.
I hate to be discouraging but my guess is at present that what john lewis is doing is probably as much as is needed.
Do I have to fix some bugs or make any other sort of contribution, before
submitting my proposal?
You should show that you know how to build and use coreboot from scratch. It makes no sense to talk about rom-o-matic otherwise.
Do you have a proposal template or some special requirments for it? What do you think about nodejs, as a backend?
I suspect you know far more about writing such a tool than I ever will, but far less about coreboot than you need to know. Your first step should be to get it, build it, and boot it in qemu; bonus points for doing it on real hardware.
I think the choice of node.js is not nearly as important as ensuing you give people images that won't brick their machine.
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