From: Brandon Howard <brandon_waldgrave@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: First desktop motherboard supported by LinuxBIOS: GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:57:49 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070222005749.71278.qmail@web63213.mail.re1.yahoo.com> (raw)
Oops, forgot to include the relevant links in the previous email:
[1]
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2287
[2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128014
[3] http://linuxbios.org/Download_LinuxBIOS
[4] http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
--- Brandon Howard <brandon_waldgrave@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 [1] is the first-ever desktop motherboard
> supported by a Free & Open Source BIOS, thanks to AMD engineer
> Yinghai
> Lu who released GPL-licensed code last month. This state-of-the-art
> motherboard is based on the NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI chipset and AMD's
> latest Socket AM2. It contains tons of advanced features such as:
>
> Support for AMD Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 processors
> 2X PCI Express x16 slots
> 3X PCI Express x1 slots
> 2X PCI slots
> 3X 1394a (FireWire) ports
> 10X USB 2.0
> 16GB maximum memory
> SATA RAID
> 6X SATA 3Gb/s slots.
>
> This motherboard can be obtained today from many retail and online
> stores [2] and the source code for the BIOS can be downloaded from
> the
> LinuxBIOS SVN server [3].
>
> This is a huge victory in the quest for a completely Free & Open
> Source general-purpose computer that enables users to have full
> control over their own hardware. The Free Software Foundation has
> made
> the campaign for a Free BIOS a top priority because it is a key
> component in the software stack of personal computers [4]. The need
> for a Free BIOS is even more pressing since DRM and Treacherous
> Computing have found their way into some proprietary BIOSes and EFI.
> From a practical perspective, LinuxBIOS removes the need for ugly
> hacks and workarounds in the kernel that compensate for buggy BIOSes
> –
> we can now fix the BIOS ourselves.
>
> I encourage everyone upgrading their desktop computers to consider
> getting this motherboard or another one that is supported by
> LinuxBIOS.
>
> -Brandon
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next reply other threads:[~2007-02-22 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-22 0:57 Brandon Howard [this message]
2007-02-28 16:51 ` James Simmons
2007-03-01 16:55 ` Brandon W. Howard
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2007-02-22 0:54 Brandon Howard
2007-03-06 2:33 ` Quentin Sciascia
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