Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Wed Dec 07 2005 - 00:25:35 EST


Wed, 7 Dec 2005 03:06:35 +0100 wrote:
different thing. bios and firmware is pretty much part of the hardware,
pretty much like the chips' internal design: it just "does its work".
There's no of point on having open source bioses/firmware if you don't
have the design docs and all the related hardware info aswell.

True for firmware, false for BIOS.

Jeff


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