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[News] ATI Cards Might Get Open Source BIOS

  • Subject: [News] ATI Cards Might Get Open Source BIOS
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:21:53 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
An Open-Source BIOS For ATI GPUs?

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| Mark Shuttleworth would also like to see everything down to the device's 
| firmware being free software. The steps Oliver is taking at this point is to 
| examine the AtomBIOS parser, which is open-source as part of the RadeonHD 
| driver (a partial explanation of AtomBIOS).   
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE0NQ


Related:

First desktop motherboard supported by LinuxBIOS: GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4

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| The GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 [1] is the first-ever desktop motherboard
| supported by a Free & Open Source BIOS, thanks to AMD engineer
| Yinghai Lu who released GPL-licensed code last month.
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http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0702.2/2347.html


LinuxBIOS: The Forgotten Hero

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| This begs the question: is anyone currently using LinuxBIOS on
| their machines? You bet they are. According to one recent report,
| LinuxBIOS was installed on about one million machines and that
| existing number is expected to rise significantly, assuming the
| rate of growth remains constant.
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http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7694


Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project

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| The LinuxBIOS project aims to take down the last barrier in Open
| Source systems by providing a free firmware (BIOS) implementation.
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http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=31343


LinuxBIOS ready to go mainstream

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| LinuxBIOS is intended to provide a philosophically free replacement
| for proprietary firmware in chipsets. 
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/30/199208&from=rss

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