Posted on Friday, March 07 2008 @ 5:17 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Intel's Open-Source Technology Center is involved with a
number of open-source Linux projects such as Threading Building Blocks,
Moblin, PowerTOP, and the X.Org graphics driver. Intel also has vested
interests in numerous other projects such as Xen and KVM. One of Intel's
lesser-known projects, however, is the Linux-ready Firmware Developer
Kit. The Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit is a bootable CD that
analyzes the BIOS or EFI on the test system to see how well it's able to
work with Linux and what features are supported via the firmware. The
primary purpose of this kit is for use by firmware developers, but it's
also able to aide end-users in determining what BIOS features on their
system will work with Linux.
More info
at Phoronix.