permalink.gmane.org — The need for a Free BIOS is even more pressing since DRM and Treacherous Computing have found their way into some proprietary BIOSes and EFI. This is a huge victory that enables users to have full control over their own hardware.
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mobilehavocFeb 25, 2007
So I'll ask the obvious question, apart from showing your support for the OSS community what REAL advantages are they for flashing with LinuxBIOS?
ferrofluidFeb 25, 2007
Web 2.0 trendy must be goodIts prob just us poor Web 1.0 users with our bad eyesight ;)
lump1Feb 25, 2007
I was. I don't get how this is news, or what's so newsworthy about it! Lots of mobos work with LinuxBIOS!
drdabblesFeb 25, 2007
TPM and DRM are two separate systems. Sure, a violation of a DRM policy could kick off some process that talks to the TPM chip and tells it to disable option XYZ, or even disable the mobo...but they are not the same. So, you go bury your head.
mabhatterFeb 25, 2007
I'll bite.it's good to be written in C versus assembly because then it can be easily modified by non-ubergeeks. the idea of adding payloads is good... in the linux bios sense, you could put clustering software, web server, file server, etc right on the hardware....super instant boot! the only limit is the rather smallish size of EPROMS used.. but they make bigger, perhaps if this gets more traction we'll see that. Also some of the features are very important... most motherboards BIOS don't support any actual software running the machine... strictly machine code. In a cluster situation you need to be able to remotely get at the board... otherwise flashing to a new bios would require physically going to every machine with a floppy... can you imagine Google doing that?? Also Serial port access is another thing you have to pay a lot extra for because BIOS makers don't build it in.. again, what better way to remotely diagnose a dead board in a data center, but you have to pay several hundred extra dollars for a 3rd party bord to do that now... when most motherboards support powered serial and USB for almost 10 years!!!! Bios makers seriously hold the progress of computers back in order to keep their little monopoly... remember how intel branded boards took 5 extra years to boot from USB devices versus AMD/Via boards from socket 7 days!
curthowlandFeb 25, 2007
Because for the people who are not going to use Windows, it means we do not get weighed down by legacy crud that is there only for the purpose of supporting the Microsoft "backwards compatibility" demand.Freed of that, anything is possible. Remember when they stopped shipping a BASIC ROM?
jerrynFeb 26, 2007
It is not the first board with a Linux BIOS! My EFIKA board has a Linux BIOS and I've had it for several months now!
xmilkyFeb 26, 2007
Rumors state that RMS is already on the loose to get one. After all, it comes with his beloved "NVidious" chipset!(Ok. I'm just snappish because LinuxBIOS won't run with my mainboard, and I've to live with a broken BIOS, because MSI is too swell to release an update for three year old boards... )
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