indeed, "modern" proprietary BIOSes are not modern at all but steaming petrified piles of shitty code on crappy crutches. they should not be executed by CPU but just mercifully executed and forgotten. kudos to AMD and guys there once again for doing a right thing.
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AFAIK Coreboot still lacks some things provided by the bioses, like over/underclocking, or a menu system in general for settings.
Thus I wouldn't use it for a desktop, but someone sell me a coreboot-preinstalled laptop/netbook that boots fast'n'furious
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Coreboot can do everything that SplashTop can but in a nonproprietary way. Would be cool to have a builtin music and dvd player that's instant-on without even booting into a full Windows or Linux desktop. Not to mention even accessing the Web to get help if machine fails or even to send a quick IM.
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Originally posted by DeepDayze View PostCoreboot can do everything that SplashTop can but in a nonproprietary way. Would be cool to have a builtin music and dvd player that's instant-on without even booting into a full Windows or Linux desktop. Not to mention even accessing the Web to get help if machine fails or even to send a quick IM.
Code:Total size: 97084 Fixed: 55380 Free: 33988 (used 74.1% of 128KiB rom) CBFS coreboot.rom PAYLOAD SeaBIOS (internal, compression: LZMA) CBFSPRINT coreboot.rom coreboot.rom: 4096 kB, bootblocksize 786, romsize 4194304, offset 0x0 Alignment: 64 bytes Name Offset Type Size cmos_layout.bin 0x0 unknown 1775 fallback/romstage 0x740 stage 297048 fallback/coreboot_ram 0x49000 stage 170692 fallback/payload 0x72b00 payload 50117 (empty) 0x7ef00 null 3673510
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Originally posted by allquixotic View PostWhat about the variant of Fusion that would go into low to mid-range desktops and laptops? Are those (going to be) supported with Coreboot as well?
Ideally, for my next system build, I'd like to leave Intel behind entirely and go with the Phenom II X6 1100T, along with my current HD5970 (hanging on to it until at least HD7000 series is out for a few months). Open source graphics drivers + coreboot bios would basically give me a top to bottom free software stack....... oh, unless you count the kernel firmware for the radeon GPUs. Darn.
I think I'll look for a Fusion laptop, too, ideally with just a little more punch than an Intel GMA, without being as large and power hungry as a GeForce Go.
Here's to hoping they'll both have Coreboot support by the time I'm ready to buy.
Fusion E line "Zacate" 18w 1.6Ghz single or dual core w/ HD6310 for netbooks, nettops, HTPCs and subnotebooks.
Upcoming Fusion "Llano" 40w speed unknown, dual or quad core w/ HD6620 stated for notebook use.
C series beats the Atom w/ GMA*, E series beats a C2D CULV w/ Nvidia Ion, Llano is stated to be slower then the latest Core i mobile CPUs but stomps the Intel GPU with the HD6620 performing somewhere between the desktop HD5550 and HD5670 depending on the game. Apparently all already have XvBA and OSS driver support. It may or may not be the greatest at any given task, but these chips are doing extremely well given their TDP.
So yes, I'd love to see System76 or Zareason quad Llano based HTPC sporting coreboot and built in http://pchdtv.com/ tv tuners.
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Originally posted by crazycheese View PostAre AMD and ATI still different companies? Judged from their behaviour in CPU and GPU - they are.
In fact, the "ATI" brand has been dropped altogether. Its AMD RADEON.
Though it has been present on all of AMD's graphics products since ATI was acquired by the chip maker, the ATI brand will apparently fade out of existenc...
And look here:
You will note that the "ATI" brand was used up to and including Radeon 5000, but no further.
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Originally posted by drag View PostCoreboot can do everything a BIOS does if it is properly setup... but it does it very very quick. Probably quicker then it takes for your LCD display to boot up. Essentially by the time the display activates you should already be half-way done booting your system up.
That's the most time-consuming part of the boot up of my computer, waiting for the HDDs to spin up. Restarts are pretty fast, when the HDDs are already spinning.
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