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    Phoronix: AMD Kabini APU Support Comes To Coreboot

    As of today there's initial support in Coreboot for handling AMD Kabini APUs...

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    Is there any modern, usable mobo that supports coreboot that a consumer can actually buy and use with all latest processors. If not those stuff only matter to OEMs.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by 89c51 View Post
      Is there any modern, usable mobo that supports coreboot that a consumer can actually buy and use with all latest processors. If not those stuff only matter to OEMs.
      Agreed. Coreboot would be especially useful for things like laptops. I would love to be able to use coreboot on my laptop if I knew how to set it up and not risk bricking it.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by schmidtbag View Post
        Agreed. Coreboot would be especially useful for things like laptops. I would love to be able to use coreboot on my laptop if I knew how to set it up and not risk bricking it.
        Laptops have a chip for handling flashing, battery charging, keyboard, trackpad and other related features. This chip is often undocumented witch makes it difficult if not impossible to get CoreBoot working on a Laptop. That being said ChromeBooks are using CoreBoot afaik.

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        • #5
          Chromebook Pixel has coreboot for sure.

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          • #6
            That is very cool, and as AMD appears to be working on Chromebooks, we may see Coreboot running on AMD notebooks soon.

            Personally I think the Acer V5-122P would make a great Chromebook, or at least a notebook worth running Coreboot on.

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            • #7
              Single-board computer

              I wish there were a AMD Kabini-based single-board computer.
              Something to compete with Raspberry Pi.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by uid313 View Post
                I wish there were a AMD Kabini-based single-board computer.
                Something to compete with Raspberry Pi.
                What do you mean by "single board". There are numbers of mini-itx boards with Bobcats soldered in, and it is just matter of time to be replaced with Kabinis.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Drago View Post
                  What do you mean by "single board". There are numbers of mini-itx boards with Bobcats soldered in, and it is just matter of time to be replaced with Kabinis.
                  But these you need a case, power supply, RAM, storage, and then it gets all very expensive.

                  I want something in the Raspberry Pi size and price range.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by uid313 View Post
                    I wish there were a AMD Kabini-based single-board computer.
                    Something to compete with Raspberry Pi.
                    Thows are in completely different market segments. It's like saying Hummers should start comparing with segways.

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