-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2012 01:22 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: >> sys-bios? > > Whatever you (Gentoo developers) do, do not use bios for the > category -- well not for anything really. > > BIOS is merely one specific type of (shitty beyond belief) firmware > on one specific type of (shitty beyond belief) hardware. (Well, I've > seen the odd non-PC-platform use the term too. TI DSPs come to mind.) > > Don't make the mistake of assuming that BIOS is synonym to firmware > even if it may be the only firmware you've encountered so far.
A fair point, suggestion retracted. I'm on board with sys-firmware as well, but I do see some advantage of the current way of putting the firmware in the category of what it is for... - -Zero > > > Thank you > > //Peter > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQDGcMAAoJEKXdFCfdEflKYYcP/jbo4Nr+6vfAtimVQoKZx8oP /XPoy6gWjyxoMx7OMPMHsXeFEeDUk0JEcJT5fL7KXl/Aggk3emlkzjP0FeQyM5qI Tjy4dfpNmqFdCHUqOqVJduIW2IxTXlolQ5amW3+TLNHiE23t9ar0VqjnrxngGBPR 0b0kDHKVGEWfiCDazyzLn5Lr3u2zlCM1LwVU1dPTRWDOMWpL1kbmoiZicQUooahn HGh6+gW60850pPrZSfyNp/u4uVi53AtQI0l2q/afBosfK0lTDEKpdZifNtAPE5Ry FtY4d/v4WFWQ61iBg7McinveCgtGyTvCyvJGVlTNWrIyEBgoOyFYcZAXaLGMXJLe eDbc0iwRbNkxmuj6E578MbNGQzzkPAM4k59Ab2RSms5d6KuCAtCxL7Wg+/+C1opP /5uLv+niqkglCZHKLyIeZNLuDFWS/PPTKeCaBEKUZVWV/FJR7sud48VnqNPp3lr8 gYSFL/R+FPsjyaXPRsIw6m0A6oH/pYFukEfSt+xIG6oRe8PSioyPguTXh4cu/zqE RbfPjEZ0I+WGynKKaMO9yK7eYWArXp/r+hDwBgrKrEJoDzVKdqmAEqsPqL+fXa+O THM3G1uA1+OvImKEKMRbaRTIREMc2GDN8O4GMZKyfKWjFGM5cDLISmBuWP0aSRYg F6PN9s2IKKfkZkRFUcTj =tirC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
