On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 07:43:55PM -0400, Daniel Clark spake thusly: > I'll third Silicon Mechanics - my employer, the Free Software > Foundation, buys all of our servers from them because they are the only > company we know of that sells servers pre-installed with coreboot [1,2].
Interesting. I just checked out siliconmechanics.com and did a site search for coreboot and didn't find anything. I just read http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7449/1.html where Donald Becker says: Another thing that did not really pan out is Linux BIOS (or coreboot as it is now called). For HPC coreboot is not a good thing. For commodity systems, it puts us back to depending on the intimate details of the BIOS,, The current BIOS structure, while it could be improved, is workable. What we can hope for is that the BIOS is gone in less than a second. Right now it gone in a few seconds and I t see it as an important feature in HPC. Customers why not may want to consider that at Penguin we were tasked with maintaining a coreboot machine and found that the best solution to get the machine usable was to burn a new standard BIOS. There is also the kernel issue. Try running a 2.6 kernel on a 2.4 Linux BIOS system and you will have a real issue. So I guess he isn't too hot on it. But he probably isn't nearly as concerned about Freedom as the FSF. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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