On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 12:52:15PM +0100, Ben A L Jemmett wrote: > > Anyway, it's probably best to keep these independent in plex86 for a couple > of reasons: > * Licensing -- the Elpin BIOS isn't open source, AFAIK; when I downloaded > plex86 for the first time, I had to get the BIOS separately. > * Flexibility -- just as the system BIOS isn't needed in some circumstances > (for instance, loading a kernel image directly into RAM on start-up), a > headless machine may not have a VGA BIOS. Perhaps plex86 should be able to > support this so one can start a headless VM and talk to it over the network > at some point.
Agreed. actualy the licensing issue is somewhat annoying because our snapshot of plex86 sources at debian needs to be distributed without the Elpin BIOS, so it'd be good if those files were provided separately from the CVS -- Robert Millan
