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chris_andrew
June 22nd, 2006, 01:24 PM
Hi,

Here's an idea:

Now that Sun are working with the open-source community, how about GPL'ing the OBP. Just seems like a great idea that when you do a Ubuntu (for example) install, you could be asked whether you would like to upgrade your OBP to the current version. A bit like the FreeBIOS idea I guess. I'm not sure how technically feasable it
is, as I think the OBP patch has to be located in a Sun partition (/), before the upgrade can take place.

Is this a silly idea?

Cheers,

Chris.