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Do you program your PC BIOS or firmware?

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http://www.coreboot.org

How many PCs ship with it?

Usually, whatever software PC's "ship with" is crapware. Go figure.

"Crapware" is just my opinion. Although I've heard others note the same thing.

I think at least some Chromebooks use it. It finds use in HPC clusters and embedded/industrial settings as well.

All Chromebooks except for the ARM model and the CR48 prototype use coreboot.

The ChromeOS developers are currently porting coreboot to ARM, too.

I wish! I hate my PC's bios. So many superfluous timeouts, so much waiting around (clearly braindead programming that doesn't do hardware well). A stupid text based config interface. Nothing about the BIOS is good.

You mean, besides providing a standard way to access hardware that ARM systems still don't have to this day?

And all this time, I thought my x86-64 workstation was BIOS free!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Int...

> UEFI is meant to replace the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware interface

Hence firmware to replace BIOS, with the same purpose as BIOS.

So do you re-program your UEFI firmware?

And since when is x86-64 an ARM system, since that was my remark?

Having a specification and a reference implementation is possible without the reference implementation being proprietary... Personally I would much prefer that.

According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083583, Coreboot is being ported to ARM.

Yes.

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