Fun Stuff

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.