Hi Frank, * Frank Alcantara <frank@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
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
* Frank Alcantara <frank@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
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@thyamad.com http://www.thyamad.com -----Original Message----- From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] 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@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 -- OpenBIOS http://openbios.org/ Mailinglist: http://lists.openbios.org/ Free your System - May the Forth be with you
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@thyamad.com http://www.thyamad.com -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan@openbios.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:29 PM To: The OpenBIOS Mailinglist Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] First contact Hi Frank, * Frank Alcantara <frank@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 -- OpenBIOS http://openbios.org/ Mailinglist: http://lists.openbios.org/ Free your System - May the Forth be with you
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