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jff on March 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Richard Stallman: Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream'

Which is untrue. I just purchased a Genesi Smartbook, which uses u-Boot and wasn't designed in a fascist country with a penchant for electronic espionage.

LXicon on March 15, 2011 [–]

is u-Boot a System BIOS? it appears to be a Bootloader: http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot/

Bootloaders are executed after the BIOS.

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