Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

[Jeff Garzik]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2005-12-06 at 18:42 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> > There's some work on reverse-engineering the BIOS so that you can
> > hackishly poke 'new' modes into its tables, but it's still not a very
> > good option.
>
>
> Especially as the BIOS interface at the low level for the analogue end
> and the logic driving it is board specific. Intel have been fairly clear
> why they use the BIOS interface.

[utter, complete, abrupt tangent]

Since people are talking about BIOS, that made me remember that I wanted 
to mention something of minor significance:

Marvell GPL'd their storage BIOS that ships with their 50xx and 60xx 
cards.  x86 code, not OF.

FWIW.

Now you may return to your regularly scheduled flamewar...

	Jeff


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