Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: "Marius Schäfer" <mschaefer@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Embedded Not a Blog
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:02:19
Message-Id: 200809042002.19607.mschaefer@mimamau.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Embedded Not a Blog by Matthijs Kooijman
1 Am Donnerstag 04 September 2008 17:39:57 schrieb Matthijs Kooijman:
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3 I have one Alix as my firewall / router / server, works very well!
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5 > It seems that these boards are shipped with TinyBIOS, which is also release
6 > under an open license. Is coreboot so much faster/more open/better?
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8 > Also, I don't see any removable flash chip on the boards. Does this mean
9 > that if^H^Hwhen you brick the board, it's over, or is there some backdoor?
10 >
11 From the documentation:
12 '- Header for LPC bus (use for flash recovery or I/O expansion)'
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14 Marius