Re: [coreboot] Doubts about necessity of propietary parts in the firmware

2010-04-17 Thread xdrudis
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:18:50AM +0800, Qing Pei Wang wrote: > the 780 mainboard which coreboot support now is mahogany. I am trying to > porting a few more > mainboard as GSOC project. the mainboard i choose at this moment is > 1)Shine,2)Tilapia,3)Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H,4)ASUS M4A78-VM 5)Colorf

Re: [coreboot] Doubts about necessity of propietary parts in the firmware

2010-04-13 Thread Qing Pei Wang
hi, On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:51 AM, xdrudis wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:44:02AM -0600, Marc Jones wrote: > > Hi Xavi, > > > > Thanks for your interest in coreboot. This is a long email! :) > > > > I'm bad at summarizing. Sorry. > > > > > VGA BIOS is not required. You could have a headl

Re: [coreboot] Doubts about necessity of propietary parts in the firmware

2010-04-13 Thread xdrudis
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:44:02AM -0600, Marc Jones wrote: > Hi Xavi, > > Thanks for your interest in coreboot. This is a long email! :) > I'm bad at summarizing. Sorry. > > VGA BIOS is not required. You could have a headless system. Or a > system with a framebuffer driver like Geode. > Hea

Re: [coreboot] Doubts about necessity of propietary parts in the firmware

2010-04-13 Thread Marc Jones
Hi Xavi, Thanks for your interest in coreboot. This is a long email! :) I have made some small comments below. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:07 PM, xdrudis wrote: > Hello. > > First things first: thank you all for working in coreboot, yet another > free software project I wouldn't think possible i

[coreboot] Doubts about necessity of propietary parts in the firmware

2010-04-12 Thread xdrudis
Hello. First things first: thank you all for working in coreboot, yet another free software project I wouldn't think possible if you hadn't made it real. I've been reading the archives and browsing coreboot.org, but I have little clue about firmware so I still have doubts I would like to clear