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Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: |
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> sys-bios? |
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Whatever you (Gentoo developers) do, do not use bios for the |
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category -- well not for anything really. |
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BIOS is merely one specific type of (shitty beyond belief) firmware |
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on one specific type of (shitty beyond belief) hardware. (Well, I've |
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seen the odd non-PC-platform use the term too. TI DSPs come to mind.) |
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Don't make the mistake of assuming that BIOS is synonym to firmware |
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even if it may be the only firmware you've encountered so far. |
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Thank you |
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//Peter |
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