OpenBIOS December 1998

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414 FAQ accesses
by M Carling 21 Dec '98

21 Dec '98

Gang, There hasn't been much activity on the list lately, so I thought it might be worth mentioning that the FAQ has been accessed 414 times in the last week. So somebody cares about what we're doing. :-) M

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Re: Interrupts needed by LILO
by M Carling 12 Dec '98

12 Dec '98

> > Well, that was a property to OF that I was unaware of. What I like about > > OF is the Forth code, the device tree and that is is a standard. > Agreed. I guess I'm just cranky because I think OpenFirmware is limping > because their mission is limited to "like the PC BIOS, only cleaner and > interpreted". This means they don't provide compelling value to the > hardware vendor who only cares about x86. So it's no wonder the PC market > ignores them and it's the SPARCs and Macintoshes that use OpenFirmware. > If OpenBIOS wants to go the OpenFirmware route, that would actually speed > adoption among some groups, as the NetBSD guys have quite a bit of > experience already using OF drivers to boot their kernel. Good point, Todd. If OpenBIOS is OpenFirmware compliant, no one will shake their head, throw up their arms, or accuse us of being non-standard. If OpenBIOS is not OpenFirmware complaint, we need to have some really compelling reasons. M

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Re: Interrupts needed by LILO
by M Carling 12 Dec '98

12 Dec '98

> I thought, a main topic for OpenBIOS development is full access to the > hard drives so there is no trouble with large disks, large partitions and > kernels laying somewhere on them. Perhaps I'm confused. Shouldn't OpenBIOS be able implement the functionality of LILO? I thought that LILO existed because BIOS16 are incapable of loading anything that isn't DOS-like. Doesn't LILO look to the BIOS like DOS? In other words, when a BIOS is loading LILO, doesn't it "think" it's loading DOS? > I thought, a main topic for OpenBIOS development is full access to the > hard drives so there is no trouble with large disks, large partitions and > kernels laying somewhere on them. That sounds right. So why have a new LILO? Why not just not need LILO anymore? M

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Re: OpenBIOS Logo contest voting page ready
by Anton Bossenbroek 03 Dec '98

03 Dec '98

Hello, A money reward for the best logo is not really the best thing you can do I think, first because it cost you money and second it has nothing to do anymore with the GNU ideology. I think it would be nicer to give away something that has to do with this project, like a T-Shirt with the logo on it, signed by the main developers, or giving away a special edition OpenBIOS hardware. ..Anton Bossenbroek Op Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Hi.. > > I just finnished the OpenBIOS logo contest scripts. check out the contest > at > > http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/logo/ > > It's possible to vote for the logos now. There are not all logos online, > yet, I will put them online asap. > > Daniele, can you post this to the information boards? > > We need more logos. For that I thought about setting out a prize for the > best logo. Any ideas what would be best for this? > > As I don't have real sponsors yet and pay this prize mostly alone, it > should not be more expensive than let's say US$200 > > Regards, > Stefan. > > -- > Can you afford *not* to use linux? >

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Logo's/IRC
by Matthew Sullivan 03 Dec '98

03 Dec '98

How long is the logos admission/voting open? and... Did we ever sort out an IRC channel/net to use? If not I'll start one on CMDnet .. servers exist at irc.??.cmdnet.net where ?? is one of the following ... uk se de fi no nl .... its a small quiet net so there is rarely twits/splits Yours Matthew

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OpenBIOS Logo contest voting page ready
by Stefan Reinauer 03 Dec '98

03 Dec '98

Hi.. I just finnished the OpenBIOS logo contest scripts. check out the contest at http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/logo/ It's possible to vote for the logos now. There are not all logos online, yet, I will put them online asap. Daniele, can you post this to the information boards? We need more logos. For that I thought about setting out a prize for the best logo. Any ideas what would be best for this? As I don't have real sponsors yet and pay this prize mostly alone, it should not be more expensive than let's say US$200 Regards, Stefan. -- Can you afford *not* to use linux?

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