[LinuxBIOS] Recommendations on Fully Free Workstation hardware

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Sun Nov 26 17:59:09 CET 2006


On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 04:39:58AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > I wonder about firmware status of CD/DVD Optical disk drives and
> > sound cards.
> 
> Hard drives have firmware too.
> 
> I don't expect to see free firmware for any of these devices very
> soon, but will be glad the day I'm proven wrong. :)

Yeah, I _so_ hope you are or will be wrong :) I don't know of any such
firmwares at the moment (I didn't search a lot, though). But that would
sure be a great thing to have (and support). Any pointers from
someone who might know about efforts in this direction?

 
Uwe.
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