Excerpts from Stefan Reinauer's message of Tue Apr 19 21:30:35 -0400 2011: > * Philippe LeCavalier <[email protected]> [110419 20:22]: [..] > If your BIOS works for you, you should consider keeping it. > > Porting coreboot to a new mainboard is a significant effort and you will > have to make sure you have ways to recover from failure (i.e. get your > external flash writer and/or soldering iron ready) hm. I see. I was hoping the worst case would be flashing it back to the original BIOS. A soldering gun is a bit extreme considering my current setup works just fine.
> However, in some cases you can get to sub second firmware boot times > with coreboot. And it is open source, so you can add or remove whatever > feature you require or not. Despite the aforementioned this is still somewhat appealing to me. [..] To ensure I fully comprehend the risk here...Backing up the BIOS isn't my insurance policy; I'd actually have to replace the chip? Once I've got a clear understanding of the worst-case scenario I'll feel stronger about making a decision. -- Thanks, Phil -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
