[ltp] Can you trust your firmware?

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:56:03 -0500


Marc Lagies wrote:
> Hello!
>
> are there any open source alternatives to the IBM/Lenovo BIOS firmware 
> available? I would enjoy to compile the BIOS firmware by myself.
>
> I wonder about how much confidence I can have into my computer system 
> if such a crucial(?) component like the BIOS firmware is proprietary 
> source code?
>
> Or is my concern unfounded?
>

Well, there is this. http://openbios.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS

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