Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Feb 2007 16:42 UTC, submitted by Luis
"The GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 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. This state-of-the-art motherboard is based on the NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI chipset and AMD's latest Socket AM2." I am not exactly a Free Software evangelist, but I am a strong proponent of open BIOS, for various reasons. Good thing, this.
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2006-04-28
Another great news. Thanks to AMD for making it possible.
Now I just have one doubt... If I would buy a new computer, I'd love to have a free BIOS, but at the same time I love having good open source drivers (for example for my video card). Unfortunately, it seems that if you go for AMD you can have free BIOS, but not free drivers for your graphic card, and if you go for Intel you can have free drivers for your graphic card, but not free BIOS.
Now that AMD bought ATI, let's not lose our faith in them opening their drivers...