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On 07/22/2012 01:22 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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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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A fair point, suggestion retracted. I'm on board with sys-firmware as |
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well, but I do see some advantage of the current way of putting the |
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firmware in the category of what it is for... |
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- -Zero |
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> Thank you |
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> //Peter |
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