[olpc-software] Which BIOS will OLPC have ?

[Sunny Sachanandani]

On Monday 05 June 2006 22:10, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:02:01PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > Don't tell me we know of something you don't ;-)?
>
> Oh I'm sure there is lots that you do
>
> > http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=bl
> >ob;h=89c34b15f5d4f748de01fdb76755b169c75af92d;hb=e60a48f5ab35737118e19bc96
> >5c640900a842f02;f=drivers/video/geode/gxfb_core.c
>
> Yes.. and I've read this code, and I've read the hardware docs. This code
> that does things like just return 16MB for frame buffersize rather than
> query it off the chipset...
>
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Does this mean we will need non-free code in the OLPC? I certainly wouldn't 
like any closed source code for things like VESA emulation and SMI/SMM .

Can we hack around the GX2 fbdev driver?

											Thanks.

											Yours truly,
											Sunny Sachanandani