[coreboot] Making coreboot more accessible to end-users - ideas?

[Philipp Stanner]

Am 07.08.2017 um 23:50 schrieb Taiidan at gmx.com:
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> How can the end-user documentation be improved?
>
Hey. Great that you're interested in this special task.

For me as a non-contributing user much trouble occurs when trying to 
build anything beside SeaBIOS (Grub and FILO especially). Maybe a little 
tutorial about building these payloads would be cool. Especially the 
FILO docu is a bit thin. How do you configure it? What would be the main 
advantages over GRUB? etc.

> What advantages are you looking for in a system that has open source 
> (including init) firmware?
> (Me - freedom, repair-ability and semi-obscure features like IOMMU 
> that actually work and can be easily fixed if they don't)

Personally I'm a great fan of technological efficiency in all my 
devices. I hate unnecessary crap laying around. When learning about x86 
I always hated the fact that there's so much useless old stuff, that 
there's a BIOS and therefore some kind of second OS on a system while 
you actually only need one. That's why I like coreboot: Start the main 
board, give control to the OS and then be a nice firmware and go back to 
your flash-rom ;)
I'm not as concerned about security and freedom as most of the other 
people probably. Unnecessary madness like the Intel Management Engine 
creeps me out a little bit, though.

P.