[LinuxBIOS] amideco, awardeco, phnxdeco now in Debian

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

I just wanted to let you all know that amideco, awardeco, and phnxdeco
by Anton Borisov have entered Debian unstable yesterday.
I've prepared the packages quite a while ago, but it took rather long
until they were approved and entered the Debian archive.

So anyways, if you're running unstable you can now simply
'apt-get install amideco' etc.

Thanks Anton for agreeing to license the code under the GPL (parts of it
under the LGPL)!

Cheers, Uwe.

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Uwe Hermann wrote:
> I just wanted to let you all know that amideco, awardeco, and phnxdeco
> by Anton Borisov have entered Debian unstable yesterday.
> I've prepared the packages quite a while ago, but it took rather long
> until they were approved and entered the Debian archive.

Is there any interest in getting these included into openSUSE?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger  [061006 19:59]:
> Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > I just wanted to let you all know that amideco, awardeco, and phnxdeco
> > by Anton Borisov have entered Debian unstable yesterday.
> > I've prepared the packages quite a while ago, but it took rather long
> > until they were approved and entered the Debian archive.
>
> Is there any interest in getting these included into openSUSE?

Yes! Are you planning to do packages?

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger  [061006 19:59]:
> > Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > > I just wanted to let you all know that amideco, awardeco, and phnxdeco
> > > by Anton Borisov have entered Debian unstable yesterday.
> > > I've prepared the packages quite a while ago, but it took rather long
> > > until they were approved and entered the Debian archive.
> >
> > Is there any interest in getting these included into openSUSE?
>
> Yes! Are you planning to do packages?

Will take a look at creating such packages, but not before end of October.
If somebody else has time to do it, I'd appreciate it.

Besides that, creating a flashrom package would probably complete the
offering we have and probably also give people the chance to conveniently
flash their BIOSes from Linux. (That might give them some additional
interest in helping us out with testing and coding.)

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Ronald G Minnich]

Uwe Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to let you all know that amideco, awardeco, and phnxdeco
> by Anton Borisov have entered Debian unstable yesterday.
> I've prepared the packages quite a while ago, but it took rather long
> until they were approved and entered the Debian archive.
>
> So anyways, if you're running unstable you can now simply
> 'apt-get install amideco' etc.
>
> Thanks Anton for agreeing to license the code under the GPL (parts of it
> under the LGPL)!
>
> Cheers, Uwe.

can we put those in linuxbios util too?

ron

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just wanted to let you all know that amideco, awardeco, and phnxdeco
> > by Anton Borisov have entered Debian unstable yesterday.
>
> can we put those in linuxbios util too?

Why? Decompressing factory BIOS is not our main goal. It may be convenient
to get the VGA BIOS from some factory BIOS in this way, but I hope we
won't have to suck in loads of code from other projects for that.
buildrom is already able to fetch additional packages from the net,
why not reuse that functionality?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Ronald G Minnich]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Why? Decompressing factory BIOS is not our main goal. It may be convenient
> to get the VGA BIOS from some factory BIOS in this way, but I hope we
> won't have to suck in loads of code from other projects for that.

Well, we do. The util directory is intended to be a set of handy 
utiltities that may be needed to build a bios. The only way people can 
get VGA bios today is via these tools. We don't have redistribution rights.

I am happy these utils are in debian, but at the same time, I don't like 
the idea that we have to tell people to get debian to get a utility they 
need.

BTW, one conclusion of the linuxbios summit this week was that we need 
to get permission from the companies to put their VGA bios on our web 
site, and/or get redistribution permission. Is someone willing to do 
this? Contact those vendors and see about redistribution permission?

thanks

ron

[Ward Vandewege]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:52:47PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > Why? Decompressing factory BIOS is not our main goal. It may be convenient
> > to get the VGA BIOS from some factory BIOS in this way, but I hope we
> > won't have to suck in loads of code from other projects for that.
>
> Well, we do. The util directory is intended to be a set of handy 
> utiltities that may be needed to build a bios. The only way people can 
> get VGA bios today is via these tools. We don't have redistribution rights.
>
> I am happy these utils are in debian, but at the same time, I don't like 
> the idea that we have to tell people to get debian to get a utility they 
> need.

Err - for the record; the utilities are also downloadable as a tarball, the
links are on the Wiki, see the 'How to retrieve a good video bios' on the FAQ
page.

Thanks,
Ward.

[Ronald G Minnich]

Ward Vandewege wrote:
> Err - for the record; the utilities are also downloadable as a tarball, the
> links are on the Wiki, see the 'How to retrieve a good video bios' on the FAQ
> page.

yeah, true but ... so why is it a problem to put them in util?

ron

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger  [061006 20:50]:
> Why? Decompressing factory BIOS is not our main goal. It may be convenient
> to get the VGA BIOS from some factory BIOS in this way, but I hope we
> won't have to suck in loads of code from other projects for that.
> buildrom is already able to fetch additional packages from the net,
> why not reuse that functionality?

yeah, buildrom would do a great job on that... the idea is really cool.