Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Coreboot on the next hw from Lemote?

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:58:50 +0100
Graziano Sorbaioli <address@hidden> wrote:

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> Karl Goetz ha scritto:
> > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:33:31 +0100
> > address@hidden wrote:
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> >> Will the successor of the Yeeloong (it should run a multicore cpu)
> >> boot from the free Coreboot bios (
> >> http://coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-January/029133.html )...
> >> and the next free laptop ship with Coreboot+ gNewsense?
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> > That would be pretty funky. I'd still prefer OpenFirmware, but IIRC
> > Coreboot can be used to load OF, so all may not be lost :)
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> You are not the first one to think like this. I heard it before.
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> Could you explain me why?
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> I am interested to know what advantages OpenFirmware has.

Guess different people have different reasons, but some that spring to
mind are:
- its been around "forever"
- its well documented
- has a lot of handy features for hardware support (that sadly are not
used on current hardware)
- free software
- portable (sparc/powerpc/x86 are the arches I've used it on)
- (from what I've seen) has all major features of PMON

kk

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> Thanks.
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