Re: [OpenBIOS] Support for Acer Aspire 3680?

[Blue Swirl]

On 11/29/08, Daniel Levine  wrote:
> Are Acer Aspire series laptops such as the 3680 currently supported by
>  OpenBIOS? As the 3680's BIOS is limited in functionality and very
>  buggy, I'm looking for alternatives to it, and Coreboot, which appears
>  largely Linux-centric, isn't looking so great. (I'm trying to get
>  FreeBSD running on the laptop, and being hampered by the buggy BIOS.)

Coreboot has much better support for real hardware, especially for
x86/PC. Currently OpenBIOS is actively developed only for Sparc32/64
and PPC platforms, running on virtual Qemu hardware.