Re: [OpenBIOS] First contact

[Stefan Reinauer]

Hi Frank,

* Frank Alcantara <frank(a)thyamad.com> [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 <frank(a)thyamad.com> [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. 
frank(a)thyamad.com
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 <frank(a)thyamad.com> [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

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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. 
frank(a)thyamad.com
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 <frank(a)thyamad.com> [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

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