| ▲ | zir_blazer 10 hours ago | |||||||||||||
Yes, I know that there are examples in the wild of that kind of AI modding: https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2026/08/fixing-an-emachine... https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/modder-uses-... Coreboot in desktops is perhaps in the best shape it has been in more than a decade because you have the MSI Z690-A/Z790-P series for LGA 1700 (Which were current gen when released, and still viable if you want Intel with DDR4, albeit the boards aren't available in retail anymore) and the recently released port for the MSI B850-P for AM5 Phoenix. It was a major leap from previously, where it only supported ancient platforms or unobtanium reference boards. I bashed Coreboot a lot for that, but now you actually have usable options. Same with Servers, with the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 for AMD Turin. When was the last time you saw Coreboot running on current gen boards available in retail, if ever? | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | userbinator 10 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||
The last time I looked at Coreboot it didn't have any configuration UI at all ("you have to set the options and recompile/reflash" was the answer I got), which basically makes it next to useless for a regular PC... and apparently it still doesn't. They've already done the hard work of RE'ing and all the hardware-specific stuff; how hard can it be to at least have a simple setup menu? Hopefully someone vibecodes (vibeports?) one in the next little while. (Incidentally this is also one of my gripes with the Intel Macs, wanting to put Linux on one but having zero configurability pre-OS is a huge pain. Meanwhile a standard PC BIOS with the equivalent hardware has plenty of options. Maybe I'll get around to (vibe)porting a regular BIOS to mine...) | ||||||||||||||
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