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Re: Moving motherboard BIOS to embedded Linux BIOS

Verily I say unto thee, that 7 spake thusly:
> Moving motherboard BIOS to embedded Linux BIOS

Coincidentally, I was researching that very thing last night.

Here's brilliant Google Talk presentation on the subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X72LgcMpM9k

However, I was rather disturbed by the OS-agnostic security issues
inherent in using a BIOS, of whatever type ... something I'd never
considered before watching that presentation.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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