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

Jeff Garzik
2005-12-07T05:25:46Z

Wed, 7 Dec 2005 03:06:35 +0100 wrote:
> different thing. bios and firmware is pretty much part of the hardware,
> pretty much like the chips' internal design: it just "does its work".
> There's no of point on having open source bioses/firmware if you don't
> have the design docs and all the related hardware info aswell.

True for firmware, false for BIOS.

Jeff