On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 10:26:31PM +0200, Fred . wrote:
And in terms of standards compliance?
I know proprietary BIOS have advantage when it comes to SMBIOS due to the implementation in SeaBIOS lagging behind several versions.
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se wrote:
Fred . wrote:
How is SeaBIOS working towards the non-technical goals of the project?
This is not so clear. I'm not even sure that there are non-technical goals for the project.
Competing with commercial BIOS products would require a company to put a SeaBIOS-based PC firmware to market, quite likely in concert with coreboot. I know of one company which offers among other things coreboot services, Sage Engineering, who are quite active in the coreboot community. http://www.se-eng.com/coreboot.html
But even so you can see that the business model is different from commercial BIOS products, and already this small difference presents a non-technical challenge.
SeaBIOS lacks documentation. It lacks communication. The website is not updated with news about the development. There is no mention of what's new, whats planned, etc.
Now I am curious what other BIOSes give you all that? In all that points Seabios in not different from most other open source project.
-- Gleb.