AMD Provides Fusion Support For Coreboot

An anonymous reader writes "AMD has done a big code drop providing Fusion support for Coreboot, the project that once was called LinuxBIOS for providing an open source BIOS implementation." A lack of vendor support has long made the task of the coreboot developers difficult. Support for what is slated to be a common chipset is pretty encouraging, and will hopefully make it easier to run an entirely Free Software system for diehards like RMS.

Wait!

[otravi]

What's this? A Phoronix article where I _don't_ have to click through eleven other articles to find the source?

Other than that: Hopefully this will make coreboot's future brighter, by a lot.

Re:Speed

[Ant P.]

I've got a Jetway mini-ITX, and its BIOS/ACPI is so FUBAR that they managed to break *all* power management stuff along with access to the temperature sensor and fan speed controls. Y'know, the main reasons for buying a low-speed mini-ITX in the first place.

And unlike all other mobo manufacturers I've used (Asus is good, and so is Gigabyte), this one seems to never, ever put out updates to fix their broken firmware, let alone add features to it.

Thanks, AMD

[drinkypoo]

That's very nice. Of course, there's more to motherboard support than the chipset and CPU, but they are two major hurdles.

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