On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> I concede the principal of using an open source (patched,
> maintained?) driver if you'll use LinuxBIOS or give a good logical
> reason why I should break a system which works for me, relies on a
> propiatery (fairly critical) chunk of code... but *not* flash the
> mobo bios on every system I, you or (n) comes to, on the same
> principals.
That's interesting, but the BIOS is nothing more than a (pretty bad)
bootloader, for one of my machines it doesnt even manage that
properly.
regards,
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