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== Coreboot Developer Facts ==
A comprehensive (yet not necessarily complete) collection of facts about the developers of coreboot can be found on the [[Coreboot Developer Facts]] page.
== Common git typos ==
$ git pill
$ git stash poop
$ git vommit
$ git vommit --amend
$ git pus --force
$ git commit --amen
$ gut pull
== Memorable quotes ==
Ron Minnich, ML discussion, March 14, 2014:
<blockquote> In other words, you can design a special case that makes doing a good design of the general case almost impossible. That's been done too; see UEFI. </blockquote>
mue, IRC discussion, January 2014:
<blockquote> If PHP had a garbage collector, would it have to collect itself? </blockquote>
Damien, IRC discussion regarding porting a sandybridge board, December 2013:
<blockquote> I got some help from kmalkki and he said my best bet is to disassemble the mrc blob. Fuck that. I know what's in it. It's shit. </blockquote>


== Failure at scale ==
== Failure at scale ==


A BIOS gets confused in a very visible way: [[File:Billboard_bios_fail.jpeg]]
A BIOS gets confused in a very visible way:  
 
[[File:Billboard_bios_fail.jpeg|640px]]
 
Photo courtesy Greg Kurtzer of LBL.
Photo courtesy Greg Kurtzer of LBL.


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== What floor am I on?  ==
== What floor am I on?  ==


An elevator in Spain: [[File:Elevator_spain.jpeg]]
An elevator in Spain:  
 
[[File:Elevator_spain.jpeg|640px]]


Photo courtesy Gorka Guardiola
Photo courtesy Gorka Guardiola
== Confused payphone ==
A payphone in trouble. Taken during the LinuxBIOS summit in Hamburg, Germany in October 2006. Bonus: two coreboot hackers visible in the reflection.
[[File:Dscn3815.jpg|640px]]
Photo by Ward Vandewege
== Clipper Machine ==
At the Palo Alto Caltrain station
[[File:Clipper_caltrain.jpeg|640px]]
From Ed Swierk
== Train ticket machine ==
Somewhere in Berlin
[http://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/foto_1/5914068/2.jpg?format=format36]
== ATM ==
At Keflavik Airport. [[User:PatrickGeorgi|I]] remember when ATMs used OS/2...
[[File:Keflavik_ATM.JPG|640px]]
== BIOS Restrictions ==
Some BIOS do imlplement restrictions, here it will refuses to boot if it finds an internal WiFi card that is not in the vendor's whitelist.
[[File:Network_card_bios.jpg|640px]]

Latest revision as of 16:25, 24 November 2021

Coreboot Developer Facts

A comprehensive (yet not necessarily complete) collection of facts about the developers of coreboot can be found on the Coreboot Developer Facts page.

Common git typos

$ git pill
$ git stash poop
$ git vommit
$ git vommit --amend
$ git pus --force
$ git commit --amen
$ gut pull

Memorable quotes

Ron Minnich, ML discussion, March 14, 2014:

In other words, you can design a special case that makes doing a good design of the general case almost impossible. That's been done too; see UEFI.

mue, IRC discussion, January 2014:

If PHP had a garbage collector, would it have to collect itself?

Damien, IRC discussion regarding porting a sandybridge board, December 2013:

I got some help from kmalkki and he said my best bet is to disassemble the mrc blob. Fuck that. I know what's in it. It's shit.

Failure at scale

A BIOS gets confused in a very visible way:

Photo courtesy Greg Kurtzer of LBL.


What floor am I on?

An elevator in Spain:

Photo courtesy Gorka Guardiola

Confused payphone

A payphone in trouble. Taken during the LinuxBIOS summit in Hamburg, Germany in October 2006. Bonus: two coreboot hackers visible in the reflection.

Photo by Ward Vandewege

Clipper Machine

At the Palo Alto Caltrain station

From Ed Swierk

Train ticket machine

Somewhere in Berlin

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ATM

At Keflavik Airport. I remember when ATMs used OS/2...

BIOS Restrictions

Some BIOS do imlplement restrictions, here it will refuses to boot if it finds an internal WiFi card that is not in the vendor's whitelist.