[ltp] Re: Can you trust your firmware?

John Sullivan linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:19:28 -0500


Marc Lagies <lagies@mi.fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hello!
>
> are there any open source alternatives to the IBM/Lenovo BIOS firmware
> available? I would enjoy to compile the BIOS firmware by myself.
>

At the FSF we've been trying to help promote projects along these lines.
<http://coreboot.org> is the one that's running on my workstation now.

But there isn't anything that works on a laptop yet, except for the
OLPC, as far as I know.

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