[coreboot] computers with Coreboot BIOS

[Anders Jenbo]

I think that it sounds more like that they are offering it early at
request untill thy (or otheres) gets it to work 100% and at that point
they will just ship with it.

-Anders

lør, 01 05 2010 kl. 14:58 -0400, skrev Joseph Smith:
> On 05/01/2010 10:12 AM, bari wrote:
> > Joseph Smith wrote:
> >
> >>> <<<<
> >>> Free BIOS (Coreboot, etc.): ---------------------------
> >>> Our
> >>> computers are not yet available with a Free BIOS, but we are very
> >>> interested in offering that option in the future. We can build systems
> >>> with Coreboot as the BIOS, but there will be some limitations as to
> >>> certain video cards (ATI for 3D), processors, motherboards, memory,
> >>> WiFi, and other areas as well. Please write us if you are interested.
> >>
> >> Yes that is good news Pete. I don't really get the part about
> >> "limitations" though, why would those
> >> items have "limitations"?
> >>
> > They probably meant that since there are no modern Intel chipsets or
> > CPU's currently supported by coreboot that this will be limited to AMD
> > only. Plus AMD DDR3 support is only ~1 week old.
> >
> Yeah, your probably right. But the way it is worded implies major 
> limitations. I would think if a vendor was going to offer coreboot as an 
> alternative solution, they would spend some time developing coreboot to 
> work 100% on their product.
> 
> Anyways it is a good start to see coreboot offered as an alternative. 
> Maybe other PC vendors will catch on :-)
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Joseph Smith
> Set-Top-Linux
> www.settoplinux.org
>