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There's An Effort By A System76 Engineer To Bring Coreboot To Newer AMD Platforms
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There is more truth to this than many people think. Industry insider Jean-Louis Gassée has written on this topic, that if Apple's ARM devices are a serious improvement over what x86 offers, they have the potential to disrupt the x86 market.
Specifically, what are Dell, HP, Asus, and others going to do if Apple offers materially better laptops and desktops and Microsoft continues to improve Windows on ARM Surface devices? In order to compete, PC manufacturers will have to follow suit, they’ll “go ARM” because, all defensive rhetoric aside, Apple and Microsoft will have made the x86 architecture feel like what it actually is: old.
This won’t happen overnight and there will be an interesting mess of x86 and ARM SoC machines fighting it out in the marketplace. Large organizations need continuity and would balk at the prospect of servicing two kinds of Windows machines and apps. As usual, they’ll downplay Apple’s advantage and curse Microsoft for causing trouble. But if the newer machines are actually better, rogue members within these organizations will sneak in new devices and software; they always do.
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Originally posted by some_canuck View PostAm I the only one who doesn't care about coreboot/libreboot? What's the point of booting a linux kernel to boot my linux kernel? All I want a BIOS/UEFI to do is give me a F1/F8/F10/whatever button to press and a menu so I can choose my boot device and set my memory speeds.
Not to mention, AMD apparently left ECC memory support enablement to BIOS vendors on a lot of their Ryzen chips. Coreboot could really add a lot of value in scenarios like that. As could coreboot with IPMI/OPMA integration, as a lot of servers have issues with their IPMI implementations. I'd *love* to see firmware integration with a potential PCIe IPMI card make it into a standard. That'd be a *huge* push for the server market that could filter down to consumers.
Furthermore, if coreboot can gain enough momentum, there's a fair chance that, together with vendors, it can be the new default firmware. Which would bring everyone forward. I mean, it can be used to boot another OS like Windows, too. Open firmware moving us away from proprietary AMI and Phoneix BIOS shit would be a major win.
Keep in mind that not every contribution results in a direct revolution. Sometimes you've got to wait for the grains of sand to pile up before it changes the scales.
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Guys, don't be naive. Apple won't give a f*** about Linux. The best "support" you can expect from them is maybe not artificially limiting/locking a boot for other OS, but even that I really doubt. What, do you think they will upstream Apple SoCs-specific drivers/code (accelerators support and stuff)? Not gonna happen.
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Originally posted by chithanh View Postwizard69 herman
There is more truth to this than many people think. Industry insider Jean-Louis Gassée has written on this topic, that if Apple's ARM devices are a serious improvement over what x86 offers, they have the potential to disrupt the x86 market.
https://mondaynote.com/apple-silicon...l-79a5ef66ad2b
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Originally posted by some_canuck View PostAm I the only one who doesn't care about coreboot/libreboot? What's the point of booting a linux kernel to boot my linux kernel? All I want a BIOS/UEFI to do is give me a F1/F8/F10/whatever button to press and a menu so I can choose my boot device and set my memory speeds.
Assuming you have been in a hurry ....please find the answer here
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