[SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS vs other BIOS?

[Gleb Natapov]

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 at 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.

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			Gleb.