I think that it sounds more like that they are offering it early at request untill thy (or otheres) gets it to work 100% and at that point they will just ship with it.
-Anders lør, 01 05 2010 kl. 14:58 -0400, skrev Joseph Smith: > On 05/01/2010 10:12 AM, bari wrote: > > Joseph Smith wrote: > > > >>> <<<< > >>> Free BIOS (Coreboot, etc.): --------------------------- > >>> Our > >>> computers are not yet available with a Free BIOS, but we are very > >>> interested in offering that option in the future. We can build systems > >>> with Coreboot as the BIOS, but there will be some limitations as to > >>> certain video cards (ATI for 3D), processors, motherboards, memory, > >>> WiFi, and other areas as well. Please write us if you are interested. > >> > >> Yes that is good news Pete. I don't really get the part about > >> "limitations" though, why would those > >> items have "limitations"? > >> > > They probably meant that since there are no modern Intel chipsets or > > CPU's currently supported by coreboot that this will be limited to AMD > > only. Plus AMD DDR3 support is only ~1 week old. > > > Yeah, your probably right. But the way it is worded implies major > limitations. I would think if a vendor was going to offer coreboot as an > alternative solution, they would spend some time developing coreboot to > work 100% on their product. > > Anyways it is a good start to see coreboot offered as an alternative. > Maybe other PC vendors will catch on :-) > > -- > Thanks, > Joseph Smith > Set-Top-Linux > www.settoplinux.org > -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot