On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Roger Heflin wrote:
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.
i'm glad someone pointed out how this isn't as useful as it sounds.
LinuxBIOS may be able to boot an embedded linux kernel through the BIOS,
but you need to replace the BIOS chip since its too small to hold a kernel.
