I agree with Segher.
Interesting, since I don't think you do. Maybe I didn't
explain myself well enough. But let's drop this thread now.
Segher
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Segher Boessenkool wrote:
I agree with Segher.
Interesting, since I don't think you do. Maybe I didn't
explain myself well enough. But let's drop this thread now.
Segher
I meant in that hard drives are 100% black boxes that I don't really
care how work, just that they work. And good idea.
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. :)
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
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 06:47:37PM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
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).
What good would it do to replace
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).
What good would it do to replace the known-good firmware
of a hard drive with something home grown?
On 26/11/06, Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On top of that, think DRM. Say LinuxBIOS becomes really successful, and we
basically kill EFI (and therefore, DRM in the bios). The next thing they'll
try is putting it in video cards, audio cards, hard drives etc. In fact, they
tried that
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 11:05:27PM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
So, did you get a (small) update from the vendor, or did you
pull off the semi-impossible task of rewriting the thing from
scratch :-)
Sure, we got the vendor patch. But I'm glad we were not the *first* people to
run into this
Ward Vandewege wrote:
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 11:05:27PM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
So, did you get a (small) update from the vendor, or did you
pull off the semi-impossible task of rewriting the thing from
scratch :-)
Sure, we got the vendor patch. But I'm glad we were not
