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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2005-11-05
This is a really nice motherboard for bios hackers. In fact, it includes 2 identical bios chips so that if you flash one and brick it, you have a backup one usable to recover your system with. By default, these motherboards use Award BIOS, but it isn't very difficult to flash them with LinuxBIOS. They claim to have gone from poweron to a login prompt in 3 seconds using LinuxBIOS, but I can only get it down to 8 seconds
Maybe some more hacking and I'll get it <5 seconds to a login prompt.