On Sunday, July 5, 2020 6:18:50 AM MST Solomon Peachy wrote:
On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 08:52:12AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot via devel
wrote:
> So you want to discuss Linux desktop deployments, excluding the only
> sucessful mass Linux desktop deployment to date? Why?
Because the raw data I had access to excludes chromebooks, only listing
"traditional" PCs and servers. They lumped chromebooks in with tablets
and other such things, and I'm not going to spend several thousand
dollars to buy market reports just for a stupid thread on fedora-devel.
Additionally, all chromebooks boot with u-boot on top of a UEFI/GPT disk
layout. The x86 ones supposedly use coreboot to load u-boot:
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/disk-format
Needless to say, this actually *helps* my argument, as including
ChromeOS systems into those numbers will further decrease the overall
BIOS-capable (and thus, BIOS-only) market share.
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.
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John M. Harris, Jr.