• fubo@lemmy.world
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    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-4.17 (June 2022)

    Coreboot developers are releasing Coreboot 4.17 today with various new motherboards supported, support for GRUB2 atop SeaBIOS as a payload, and various low-level code improvements too. Plus Coreboot 4.17 brings the “coreDOOM” payload – yes, it’s possible to get the game Doom running atop this system firmware.

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    Let’s add it to Systemd. That way we can play games while we wait for systemd to load

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    I would much rather have a little diagnostic and data recovery OS in the firmware with drive mounting support, a file manager, and USB mass storage rather than Doom or Tetris or whatever the hell. Playing Doom from firmware is a neat proof of concept, but won’t help anybody un-bork their OS install.

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      There were some motherboards that had something of that nature (Asus had ExpressGate IIRC) but they were all hilariously incomplete because they didn’t realize how useful as a diagnostic thing it’d end up being and tried to sell it off as a “quick boot” thing.

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    As a cool side project I could see someone developing it. But I don’t think any companies would put money into it. It doesn’t add a huge amount of value to the product.

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      Actually it could detract value.

      A consumer’s computer’s hd get corrupted. They’re now playing space invaders. That means they’re not buying a new computer.

      For some people it works just be a delay, others may just resign themselves to play space invaders for eternity.

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    You could set up a ROM drive with like 128k, and that would be enough to emulate a floppy, boot DOS, and load an classic off-the-shelf game.