Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
After seven years of work, the LinuxBIOS project is on the brink of
making a free BIOS a standard option for computers.
Look at the list of supported hardware. There seems to be a lack of
any current production consumer boards on that list. It looks like
the only athlon64/Opteron/turion support is for the ancient AMD-8111
reference chipset that no consumer motherboard uses.
http://linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards
This is worse than the trouble we have with finding supported wifi
hardware.
-wolfgang
LinuxBIOS is designed for the needs of supercomputing cluster
machines, almost all of those motherboards are Dual/Quad Socket
boards (in fact they a be dual/quad socket boards). The
people funding the projects interest lies in dual and quad
socket boards, because they need high memory, and the high
speed communication boards (Myrinet, Infiniband, ... ) and ports
to support those high-speed communication boards cost more than
most mid to high end desktop systems.
Roger
