[coreboot] The fallacy of the CONFIG_* plague

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Thu Feb 13 02:21:14 CET 2014


mrnuke wrote:
> > If something is known already at build-time then I think it's a
> > bad idea to push the decision to run-time.
> 
> And yet, we have many places where we take decisions which belong
> at runtime, and make them at compile-time. One such example is
> limiting the SATA speed on butterfly.

Don't confuse the product that ships with coreboot for what it
becomes after you've modified it.

Do you expect Intel to give you support after you've overclocked
their CPU way out of the spec of the shipped product?


//Peter



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