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. -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
