[coreboot] [OT] Misunderstanding due to Google Mail behaving weird (was: support for S-1156 ASUS Maximus III Formula)

David Houston root at crankyadmin.net
Mon Dec 28 12:46:12 CET 2009


Paul,

It does appear I have jumped the gun a bit. I seen your name in a
previous post with a similar subject. and thought 'god he's been told
once' and went into rant mode......

Please accept my  apologies for the misunderstanding.

Regards

Dave
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cranky at archlinux.us



On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Paul Menzel
<paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Dear David,
>
>
> Am Montag, den 28.12.2009, 09:29 +0000 schrieb David Houston:
>> I think your missing the point of some of the other list posts that
>> have been replied to you.
>
> Are you sure, you did not mix up the posts and the posters?
>
>> A lot of what coreboot is about is
>> motivation to solve and find information out yourself.
>
> Well I kind of disagree. If an information has been found by someone why
> not share it and save the others the time having to search for it again.
>
>> > What chipsets and devices does it have?
>>
>> I found this information on Google within 30 seconds of a search.
>
> So why do not you share the link?
>
> Of course everyone is able to find it by himself in a certain amount of
> time. But if every reader of this list has to do it this sums up to
> quite some amount.
>
> So it would be nice if the information is provided in the message and
> even better with a link to the product page. So everyone interested does
> not waste any time.
>
>> Porting coreboot to a unsupported board is no easy task, and the main
>> developers are busy working on other things (within coreboot) rather
>> than porting boards. People here and in IRC are always willing to
>> help, but it takes a little on your part as well.
>>
>> I think that what has already been suggested to you is why not pick a
>> new board from the supported boards on coreboot.org or a cheaper
>> option would be try coreboot out in qemu, many of us here use qemu and
>> it is by no means a second rate product.
>
> I agree. But I think nobody behaved the way you described/assumed.
>
>> Apologies for the lecture
>
> ;-)
>
> Oh, know I have a guess why this misunderstanding happened.
>
> Maybe my change of the subject and you using Google Mail web interface
> which opens a new thread if the subject changes and does not adhere to
> the threading information in the messages header made you read this
> message out of context?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
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