We are starting to see coreboot in more shipping products this summer and I expect even more in the fall. The exciting thing is that coreboot is becoming a piece of technology that vendors are starting to advertise. A recent example is the Portwell PCS-8277:
PORTWELL ANNOUNCES REVOLUTIONARY IN-VEHICLE PC
WITH THE BOOT SPEED OF AN APPLIANCE New PCS-8277 telematics system based on Coreboot® technology with HD graphics processing engine
I think that we are starting to see vendors and customers becoming more knowledgeable about what is going into their products and how coreboot is an advantage in many situations. I hope to see more announcements in the coming months.
What kinds of payloads are vendors shipping with their products? I’d be thrilled to see a TinyCoreLinux or MicroCoreLinux implementation integrated onto PC motherboard BIOSes as an option.
I’m a fan of TinyCore too, but I think that vendors are probably using filo or SeaBIOS for their disk services. SeaBIOS is the most flexible and has the most support for arbitrary OS images.