Whatever happened to the "Free Hardware Foundation", which was doing just
that (designing a motherboard which wouldn't be encumbered with proprietary
licensing)?
Unfortunately, I can guess: as soon as your design includes PCI you're up
the creek. Intel has you by the short ones. (And just try selling someone
on a motherboard that doesn't support PCI.)
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I'd be half tempted to try running your design past the smart folks on the
chip design side of Hamerschlag D level. (Who, me? I'm no chip designer; I
compile software for 'em when I'm not installing systems for 'em.
Naturally, they want Linux :-)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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