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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Coreboot on the next hw from Lemote?
From: |
Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Coreboot on the next hw from Lemote? |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:55:45 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 02:33:31PM +0100, address@hidden 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?
You're confusing things. Coreboot is not a replacement for PMON2000, i.e. it's
not a bootloader. What coreboot does is the pre-boot initialisation of
hardware that happens behind the scenes.
If coreboot supported the yeeloong, that'd make it easier to port other
bootloaders to it, like GNU GRUB.
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."