On Feb 11, 2008 6:25 PM, Corey Osgood corey.osgood@gmail.com wrote:
Some (most?) hardware vendors say they only support MS Windows, the same logic could be applied. An open-source firmware provides a lot more assurance that the BIOS is free of malicious code.
The arguments against open source bios are almost exactly the arguments I heard years ago against open source OS.
FUD.
For example, a laptop battery could explode if incorrect power management algorithms were applied.
And with the support of the vendor(s) and some better documentation, we can know how to avoid such issues.
i want to know what laptops can explode if the software goes awry. In fact, I think the FAA wants to know. Laptops that can explode if software goes crazy should not be allowed on an airplane. Any chance intel will tell us more?
I haven't the ambition to register with the site, is there any actual hardware init code there? And what's the point of starting another project, when coreboot can already load tiano (so I've heard)?
coreboot has loaded tianocore.
I have registered at tianocore.org. There is no hardware init code there, nor will there ever be.
You can't build a working BIOS with the source code from tianocore.org -- unless you add coreboot to it.
ron