On 11.12.2008 22:02, pk wrote: > ron minnich wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Jordan Crouse <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> This is only my opinion, so take it as you will, but I think that the only >>> path to success is through the vendors first, and the end users second. >>> >> I could not agree more. >> > > +1. > > Although, as mentioned, Anandtech seems to have some influence with the > vendors. They also seem to be open to alternative technologies; for > instance, they have performed some benchmarks using gnu/linux, they have > even tried an alternative bios (albeit on modified xbox machines): > http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2271 > > Just a thought: What would they think of the demos you presented at the > google tech talk? Would it hurt to talk to them about the potentials, > explaining the current situation? >
I think a demo with a readily available board would be nice. Especially if the demo is accompanied with ready-to-burn images. I know that we had better benchmark results than Vendor BIOS for some chipsets/processors, but I am not aware of any recent benchmarking. The reason I'm kind of insisting on ready-to-burn images is that I want Anandtech to be able to verify this on their own boards in their own lab and to make it clear that coreboot is not just vaporware. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
