Increasing occurrence of platform problems

[Tom Buskey]

On 4/13/07, Seth Cohn <sethcohn at gnuhampshire.org> wrote:

> I never said it was.  But it would still be better than the closed
> source solution put forward by Apple/Sun/etc/etc...


I think Sun's stuff has been opened up.  I know the forth interpreter is
part of the PCI spec too.



> And crap code is crap code, regardless of how Open Source it
> > is.  I've seen plenty of FOSS crap code.
>
> Given a simple fixed purpose like BIOS(es), crap code won't get used
> or spread.  We're not talking about bad code that says 'hello world',
> we're talking I want to boot off USB.  Either it works, or it dies.
> Either it does something cool, or nobody will use it.  There are
> crappy/good Linux kernel modules that never made in into 'the real
> thing' until they are tested and found worthy.... the technocracy
> would handle it fine.


I want standardize serial port access to the BIOS ala Sun.  Serial port
concentrators are cheaper then KVMs.
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