On Sunday, July 5, 2020 11:31:41 AM MST Solomon Peachy wrote:
On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 10:20:01AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
Chromebook devices are neither UEFI nor BIOS. You can use GPT disk layout while still booting BIOS, which they also don't do. Chromebook devices either boot with uboot -> depthcharge or Coreboot -> uboot -> depthcharge. I don't see how this helps your argument.
If one adds ChromeOS devices into the numbers I posted, then the proportion of BIOS-boot-capable, BIOS-boot-enabled, and/or BIOS-only devices on the market (and their portion of the total install base) goes down, not up.
So using the absense of chromebooks in the numbers I referenced actually boosts, rather than undermines, my argument. Oh, there were supposedly 17 million chromebooks shipped in 2019, versus 261 million "PCs" and 12-ish million "servers".
...Is this horse sufficiently dead yet?
- Solomon
Actually, Coreboot has a SeaBIOS payload as well, so the x86_64 Chromebooks are "BIOS-boot-capable" systems. (Coreboot also has a GRUB payload, which is used by early Purism devices, before they switched to SeaBIOS, and is used by all x86_64 Libreboot systems).
People are still using systems from before 2019. More importantly, people are still using systems from 2010-2012 in Fedora, as demonstrated by this thread.