____/ Mark Kent on Friday 07 September 2007 22:24 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>
> <snip>
>> NVidia will need to follow suit. If not, then all a Linux user needs is this
>> one decent GPU (a series of them) with an open source driver. This is a
>> *huge* milestone for Free software. Open BIOS would be nice too and AMD
>> could start a trend.
>
> There is an open bios called "linuxbios", I believe.
Yes, I know, but they are still trying to have OEMs use it more extensively.
Here are some recent articles about it:
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
LinuxBIOS with X11 server, completely in Flash ROM
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| All of this in a normal BIOS chip (2 MB), without any hard drive
| connected (who needs hard drives when you can fit everything in the
| BIOS just fine)...
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http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/linuxbios-with-x11-server-completely-in-flash-rom
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
http://linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards
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