Re: SRM as standard firmware on all Alpha

["Barrett G. Lyon" <blyon netpr com>]

At 04:14 PM 10/15/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>All,
>
>I couldn't agree more, I've been talking to several API representatives
>about this and even suggested OpenBoot if SRM proved to difficult
>(politically) to achieve.  Compaq owns SRM and has until now been very
>protective of that firmware.

I think API does not have a political problem with SRM.  It's more of a
"yuck we need to pay Compaq royalties on every motherboard we sell" type of
issue.

SRM is licensed and Compaq wants the money to use it.  If SRM was more of
an open standard life would be grand.


-Barrett




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