Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS vs. FreeBIOS vs. OpenBIOS?

David Hendricks Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:14:40 -0700

LinuxBIOSv1 and FreeBIOS shared the same source base. I think it's safe to say that LinuxBIOSv2 is FreeBIOS's successor. OpenBIOS is a free implementation of the Open Firmware specification and can be used as a LinuxBIOS payload. It's not a competing project and in fact the project maintainer, Stefan Reinauer, has long been and still is a maintainer of LinuxBIOS.

On 7/13/06, Uwe Hermann < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

Hi,

I'm currently reading all available documentation to get into LinuxBIOS.
But I'm wondering how it's related with the other projects such as
OpenBIOS and FreeBIOS.

OpenBIOS is not a "competitor" in the strict sense, it's a layer above
LinuxBIOS as I understand it, and can be used as payload for LinuxBIOS,
right?

FreeBIOS seems pretty dead (last update 2003?). Was it an alternative
project which is now unmaintained, was it the same as LinuxBIOS (name
change), or have both projects merged?

TIA, Uwe.
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Uwe Hermann
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