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First Desktop Motherboard Supported by LinuxBIOS

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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Two small questions..

by fithisux on Tue 27th Feb 2007 17:35 UTC

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2006-01-22

1. Do I have to install LinuxBIOS or it is pre-installed?
2. The article/post says "we can now fix the BIOS ourselves." but it can be done only if specs for HW are released.Am I right?

I cheat . 3. Can FreeBSD/Solaris run transparently with LinuxBIOS?

Edited 2007-02-27 17:35

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RE: Two small questions..

by Ford Prefect on Tue 27th Feb 2007 18:39 in reply to "Two small questions.."

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2006-01-16

1. install yourself
2. if the source code (released by AMD) is well documented, that could be as well as the needed specs in other form
3. yes

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