[coreboot] BadBIOS Thoughts

[ron minnich]

Watching this discussion is like watching a puppy chase its tail :-)

Minus the fact that we've seen this discussion before, and we've seen
it go nowhere before, just as it is now :-(

Except that it's spiraling around the drain even faster than usual :-(

I understand people do not find the current situation ideal.

As of today, however, the only laptops you can buy *new* with a
*modern chipset* that are remotely reasonable for coreboot are
chromebooks. This simple fact is why I came to Google.

To do a laptop port you really need to interact with an EC. The EC has
been a problem for years.
If you want a sane EC (i.e. 32-bit, not some 8-bit POS emulating an
8051) and you want open source software for that EC and you want
coreboot ... you're going to get a chromebook. And those three things,
as we have learned many times, are pretty essential to a port, unless
you want to spend 3 or more years on the port.

I've got a student coming in January and he's going to work on
ChromeOS on AMD CPUs, starting with the Gizmo. If, at that time,
someone has a suggestion for an AMD laptop which might be suitable,
let me know.

ron