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:
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.
Is anyone selling a PC or a tablet that uses coreboot?
I gather that there isn’t a supported coreboot board that hasn’t been discontinued, costs less than $100, supports 16GB of RAM, and doesn’t have a NVidia or ATI chipset.
So a wholly Free Software Foundation PC or tablet isn’t possible.
Well, you put a lot of conditions on that, but wit coreboot and payloads, we are a step closer. We continue to chip away at the problem.