On 23.03.2018 20:28, Alberto Bursi wrote:
Of course they will have to be able to provide any warranty and support over the devices they sell because Intel or whoever actually made the server/board will not really support nor accept RMAs of stuff with Coreboot on it.
That's some unfortunate wording. I guess what you wanted to say is something like "stuff with tampered firmware". coreboot isn't strange to every manufacturer. Why would it be? it's the best firmware you can get for your hardware.
Nico
I wanted to say what I said. Dell, HP, Supermicro, Tyan, and whatever other OEM making commercial servers I know of is highly unlikely to accept a RMA or provide any support on their hardware if you install Coreboot. Therefore any seller of such devices would have to provide such support and warranty on their own.
If you just tampered the UEFI firmware is much less of an issue for RMA and support (in my experience), depending on how bad you tampered with it, anyway.
-Alberto
On 03/23/2018 10:17 PM, Nico Huber wrote:
On 23.03.2018 20:28, Alberto Bursi wrote:
Of course they will have to be able to provide any warranty and support over the devices they sell because Intel or whoever actually made the server/board will not really support nor accept RMAs of stuff with Coreboot on it.
That's some unfortunate wording. I guess what you wanted to say is something like "stuff with tampered firmware". coreboot isn't strange to every manufacturer. Why would it be? it's the best firmware you can get for your hardware.
Nico
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