OpenChrome Maintainer Making Some Progress On VIA DRM Driver

[dungeon]

Ah for very old chips I tought someone working on those epias p910 and m920... those seems have even Windows 10 support:

http://www.viatech.com/en/boards/pico-itx/epia-p910/

http://www.viatech.com/en/boards/mini-itx/epia-m920/

[Azrael5]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean for "bios which programs itself".
Conventional software cannot do much more than assembling pre-made blocks (binaries or code) following a rigid logic encoded by someone, and this does not solve the problem as someone still had to write the logic, prepare the pre-made blocks and make sure that everything worked.

If you mean a software that can figure out by itself how to do things by reading a manual and by troubleshooting hardware that does not work exactly as the spec, it's a software that knows how to think, at least in his specific field, so a specialist artificial intelligence for the very least.

Not the "100% people" AIs in movies, mind me, that would still be a program that has no idea of anything outside of its field, like Google's Picasa image tagging algorithms.

Today diagnostic tools are able to detect all specifications of a machine so it is possible after detection that a program provided of hardware database realizes a bios for that kind of machine.

[starshipeleven]

Today diagnostic tools are able to detect all specifications of a machine so it is possible after detection that a program provided of hardware database realizes a bios for that kind of machine.

Uhm, programmers actually use their brain to make a bios after they looked at specs.
A conventional program cannot invent anything, so either it assembles blocks made by human programmers (i.e you are better off letting a human programmer do everything) or it is not a conventional program but a specialist AI and it is able to come up with logic on its own.

[starshipeleven]

Ah for very old chips I tought someone working on those epias p910 and m920... those seems have even Windows 10 support:

They also state "the most popular linux distributions" are supported too. Yeah right.

[Serafean]

it could be possible to create a bios which program itself maching the hardware used reading their firmware specifications?

look up VHDL and FPGA. IMO that's as close as one can get to what you described.

S.

[oystercatcher]

I have an epia p900 pico-itx. I have tried several iterations of fedora with the last usable (barely) probably f19. Usually I
get mode not supported while trying to install. In any case opengl is not supported so unable to use stellarium.

The windows drivers work but no opengl support there either. Really dissapointed with via.