[LinuxBIOS] FYI Asus ships mainboard with Linux, Firefox & Skype sitting in flashrom :)

gary sheppard rhyotte at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 15:07:34 CEST 2007


On 10/7/07, Robinson Tryon <bishop.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/7/07, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/7/07, Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello All!
> > > Maybe somebody didn't see it yet?
> > >
> > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=869
> > >
> > > They'd better use LinuxBIOS :)
> >
> > I wonder if Intel let them. It's an intel chipset.
>
> Right -- it looks like it's "Intel X38".
>
> Modern Intel chipsets aren't well (aren't at all?) supported by
> LinuxBIOS, right?  So if they are using LinuxBIOS, getting patches
> back from Asus would be quite helpful indeed.
>
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I believe they are using Award Bios. To further make things "interesting"
updating that linux to the latest version of the software, you must have
windows installed to start the update software. Go Figure!

Gary
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