[LinuxBIOS] IPR issues reg. VGA BIOS and ACPI

[Abins Jose]

Hi,

I went through the documentation for building and installing Linux
BIOS. It is mentioned that VGA BIOS and ACPI tables have to be
extracted from the original BIOS and included into Linux BIOS. Can the
resultant Linux BIOS image be distributed freely? If not, are there
other options than using the VGA BIOS and ACPI tables from the
original BIOS?

Thanks and regards,
Abins

[yhlu]

You need to figure out who has copyright of ACPI tables.

YH

[Abins Jose]

On 11/22/06, yhlu  wrote:
> You need to figure out who has copyright of ACPI tables.

There are BIOS images available for download on the LinuxBIOS website.

http://qa.linuxbios.org/overview.php

Don't these include VGA BIOS and ACPI?
> YH

[Uwe Hermann]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:47:06AM +0530, Abins Jose wrote:
> On 11/22/06, yhlu  wrote:
> > You need to figure out who has copyright of ACPI tables.
>
> There are BIOS images available for download on the LinuxBIOS website.
>
> http://qa.linuxbios.org/overview.php
>
> Don't these include VGA BIOS and ACPI?

No, I don't think so.

Uwe.

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Abins Jose  [061122 07:17]:
> On 11/22/06, yhlu  wrote:
> > You need to figure out who has copyright of ACPI tables.
>
> There are BIOS images available for download on the LinuxBIOS website.
>
> http://qa.linuxbios.org/overview.php
>
> Don't these include VGA BIOS and ACPI?

Some of the boards implement ACPI. Those boards where we redid it from
scratch or used the code opened up by AMD.

None of the images includes a VGA BIOS image. Such image is only
required if you want to use the onboard graphics chips, and I am
currently in the progress of talking to onboard graphics chip vendors to
find a solution for that.

Stefan