[olpc-software] Which BIOS will OLPC have ?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Mon Jun 5 12:51:47 UTC 2006


On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 04:34:07PM +0530, Sunny Sachanandani wrote:
> I personally think LinuxBIOS is the best choice: It cant boot fast and is 
> quite lightweight.

Chunks of the geode PC hardware are emulated by SMM/SMI traps so you actually
need some quite funky and non-free BIOS firmware blocks.

Alan




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