On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:58:50 +0100 Graziano Sorbaioli <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Karl Goetz ha scritto: > > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:33:31 +0100 > > [email protected] wrote: > > > >> 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? > > > > 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 :) > > You are not the first one to think like this. I heard it before. > > Could you explain me why? > > 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 > > Thanks. > -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian user / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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