On Sunday, July 5, 2020 6:18:50 AM MST Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 08:52:12AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote:
> > So you want to discuss Linux desktop deployments, excluding the only
> > sucessful mass Linux desktop deployment to date? Why?
> 
> Because the raw data I had access to excludes chromebooks, only listing
> "traditional" PCs and servers.  They lumped chromebooks in with tablets
> and other such things, and I'm not going to spend several thousand
> dollars to buy market reports just for a stupid thread on fedora-devel.
> 
> Additionally, all chromebooks boot with u-boot on top of a UEFI/GPT disk
> layout.  The x86 ones supposedly use coreboot to load u-boot:
> 
>   https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/disk-format
> 
> Needless to say, this actually *helps* my argument, as including
> ChromeOS systems into those numbers will further decrease the overall
> BIOS-capable (and thus, BIOS-only) market share.

Chromebook devices are neither UEFI nor BIOS. You can use GPT disk layout 
while still booting BIOS, which they also don't do. Chromebook devices either 
boot with uboot -> depthcharge or Coreboot -> uboot -> depthcharge. I don't 
see how this helps your argument.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.

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