Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> While all extant consumer-ready i386 BIOSes are currently non-free, a
> free BIOS could be created to replace them. And in fact there are at
> least two projects (FreeBIOS and LinuxBIOS) to do just that.
If someone wants to take up the task of getting one of those free
BIOS projects working in plex86, that would be great. It's a
fairly modular task.
Though, note that the _system_ BIOS that plex86 uses, is the one
that I wrote, and is LGPL. It's not very rich in features.
The BIOS from Elpin is a _VGA_ BIOS. I don't know of any OSS
VGA BIOS projects ongoing. It works well, and gave us a big
jump-start. There's a lot of little quirks in the VGA BIOS
interface, that make writing one a pain. But anyone is welcome to.
-Kevin
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MandrakeSoft, Inc. Plex86 developer
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