Re: [OpenBIOS] First contact

[Stefan Reinauer]

Hi Frank,

* Frank Alcantara  [031014 14:00]:
> I am a complete newbie in BIOS Area, I am starting this just now. So I
> guess the freebios is the best option to my embedded projects. Few day
> ago, I saw some posts about a Award bios source, this source should be
> very usefully for who is starting, there are this source available?
> Where can I find this? There are others bios sources available? I will
> starting in freebios studying all possible sources and posting all of my
> observations, please help me in this startup.

Award BIOS Source code was illegally published quite a long while ago,
but it is not advisable to use this for any purpose, since it is
Award/Phoenix's intellectual property.

See http://www.openbios.org/project/rules.html

Since most closed source software is never reviewed by a huge amount of
community people, I am deeply convinced that you can learn a lot more
about techniques, concepts and implementation from the free firmware
variants that are out there, namely LinuxBIOS, OpenBIOS, uboot, gbios,
Proll, Tiara. Find the URLs at http://www.openbios.org/docs/links.html

Stefan

First contact

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Frank Alcantara  [031014 14:00]:
> > I am a complete newbie in BIOS Area, I am starting this just now. So I
> > guess the freebios is the best option to my embedded projects. Few day
> > ago, I saw some posts about a Award bios source, this source should be
> > very usefully for who is starting, there are this source available?
> > Where can I find this? There are others bios sources available? I will
> > starting in freebios studying all possible sources and posting all of my
> > observations, please help me in this startup.
>
> Award BIOS Source code was illegally published quite a long while ago,
> but it is not advisable to use this for any purpose, since it is
> Award/Phoenix's intellectual property.

The last person who advertised that they had Award BIOS source was in a 
legal mess not long after that. I don't know if that person is in jail at 
this point or merely bankrupt. I strongly advise all concerned to NEVER 
traffic in or accept this type of proprietary code.

thanks

ron

First contact

[Frank Alcantara]

Thank you Ron This was my mistake I did no read the all posts and was
thinking about a donation from Award to free bios project. I saw the
stefan posts before and understand the real situation. Sorry for this
post. I will take more care in future.

Frank Alcantara. 
Thyamad Consultoria. 
[e-mail]
http://www.thyamad.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 4:02 PM
To: The OpenBIOS Mailinglist
Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] First contact

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Frank Alcantara  [031014 14:00]:
> > I am a complete newbie in BIOS Area, I am starting this just now. So
> > I guess the freebios is the best option to my embedded projects. Few
> > day ago, I saw some posts about a Award bios source, this source 
> > should be very usefully for who is starting, there are this source 
> > available? Where can I find this? There are others bios sources 
> > available? I will starting in freebios studying all possible sources
> > and posting all of my observations, please help me in this startup.
>
> Award BIOS Source code was illegally published quite a long while ago,
> but it is not advisable to use this for any purpose, since it is 
> Award/Phoenix's intellectual property.

The last person who advertised that they had Award BIOS source was in a 
legal mess not long after that. I don't know if that person is in jail
at 
this point or merely bankrupt. I strongly advise all concerned to NEVER 
traffic in or accept this type of proprietary code.

thanks

ron

First contact

[Frank Alcantara]

Thank you Stefan, sory for this question I did not know about this
property problem. I will follow your advice and take a look in all this
sites and sources. Thanks again.

Frank Alcantara. 
Thyamad Consultoria. 
[e-mail]
http://www.thyamad.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:29 PM
To: The OpenBIOS Mailinglist
Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] First contact

Hi Frank,

* Frank Alcantara  [031014 14:00]:
> I am a complete newbie in BIOS Area, I am starting this just now. So I
> guess the freebios is the best option to my embedded projects. Few day
> ago, I saw some posts about a Award bios source, this source should be
> very usefully for who is starting, there are this source available? 
> Where can I find this? There are others bios sources available? I will
> starting in freebios studying all possible sources and posting all of 
> my observations, please help me in this startup.

Award BIOS Source code was illegally published quite a long while ago,
but it is not advisable to use this for any purpose, since it is
Award/Phoenix's intellectual property.

See http://www.openbios.org/project/rules.html

Since most closed source software is never reviewed by a huge amount of
community people, I am deeply convinced that you can learn a lot more
about techniques, concepts and implementation from the free firmware
variants that are out there, namely LinuxBIOS, OpenBIOS, uboot, gbios,
Proll, Tiara. Find the URLs at http://www.openbios.org/docs/links.html

Stefan