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Tsuroerusu
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by Tsuroerusu » Mon Dec 25, 2006 11:08 am
allix wrote:Tsuroerusu wrote:
Yeah, don't even get into laptop suspend and power management in BSD!
I believe the open bios project for the x86 anyway will fix this.
You mean LinuxBIOS? Yeah that could help a lot because it would provide an open implementation of ACPI that could be supported quite easily.
I'm hoping for a consumer-level priced motherboard with LinuxBIOS support to show up in the foreseeable future, that would be really really awesome.
Modern SPARC machines in general, seem very expensive... sadly.
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by allix » Mon Dec 25, 2006 1:00 pm
Tsuroerusu wrote:
You mean LinuxBIOS? Yeah that could help a lot because it would provide an open implementation of ACPI that could be supported quite easily.
I'm hoping for a consumer-level priced motherboard with LinuxBIOS support to show up in the foreseeable future, that would be really really awesome.
http://www.openbios.org
Thats what i was refering to, it seems LinuxBIOS is needed to accompany it,
from the website :-
OpenBIOS relies on an additional low-level firmware for hardware bringup, such as LinuxBIOS or U-Boot.
If i am not mistaken its possible to flash your own board with this project and then recompile the kernel.
Tsuroerusu wrote:
Modern SPARC machines in general, seem very expensive... sadly.
I guess its because of the lack of demand, Sun promote and sell servers with amd Opteron chips which says alot
A less other retaliers start selling sparc based machines i cannot see the price reducing.
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Tsuroerusu
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by Tsuroerusu » Mon Dec 25, 2006 1:21 pm
allix wrote:Tsuroerusu wrote:
You mean LinuxBIOS? Yeah that could help a lot because it would provide an open implementation of ACPI that could be supported quite easily.
I'm hoping for a consumer-level priced motherboard with LinuxBIOS support to show up in the foreseeable future, that would be really really awesome.
http://www.openbios.org
Thats what i was refering to, it seems LinuxBIOS is needed to accompany it,
from the website :-
OpenBIOS relies on an additional low-level firmware for hardware bringup, such as LinuxBIOS or U-Boot.
If i am not mistaken its possible to flash your own board with this project and then recompile the kernel.
I see, I found this on Wikipedia:
"OpenBIOS is a free software, portable Open Firmware implementation which is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License."
The old PowerPC Macs uses Open Firmware for their system firmware, would be interesting to have a free software implementation of it for x86, I have yet to see an x86 motherboard using Open Firmware.
allix wrote:Tsuroerusu wrote:
Modern SPARC machines in general, seem very expensive... sadly.
I guess its because of the lack of demand, Sun promote and sell servers with amd Opteron chips which says alot
A less other retaliers start selling sparc based machines i cannot see the price reducing.
Yeah, as a student I can only dream of owning af modern UltraSPARC workstation!
Almost the only computers I can afford to buy are piece of shit 500 MHz PCs that can't really be used for anything but servers.
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule."
- Siddhattha Gotama (Buddha), founder of Buddhism.
