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.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Uwe Hermann</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:uwe@hermann-uwe.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>I'm currently reading all available documentation to get into LinuxBIOS.
<br>But I'm wondering how it's related with the other projects such as<br>OpenBIOS and FreeBIOS.<br><br>OpenBIOS is not a &quot;competitor&quot; in the strict sense, it's a layer above<br>LinuxBIOS as I understand it, and can be used as payload for LinuxBIOS,
<br>right?<br><br>FreeBIOS seems pretty dead (last update 2003?). Was it an alternative<br>project which is now unmaintained, was it the same as LinuxBIOS (name<br>change), or have both projects merged?<br><br><br>TIA, Uwe.
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