Intel Pro Wireless cards

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:27 AM -0500 Eric Warnke <eric at snowmoon.com> 
wrote:

> It's firmware that takes propriataty x86 hardware and makes it into a
> commodity platform.  Without the BIOS we would all be hacking individual
> registers in each componient chip to try and get the memory subsystems
> initalized and stable.

USB host controllers seem to have succeeded with a standardized register 
layout and no proprietary firmware.