Using 3rd Party Commercial/Free BIOS With XO Laptops

[big one]

> Lack of standard BIOS

Because XO Laptops are sold to the public using "Buy 2 Get 1", IMO there should be a warning to buyer that the machine does not have standard BIOS and cannot run unmodified Linux, BSD, Haiku or other Operating System.

Can the consumer buy additional commercial BIOS from 3rd party or use Free BIOS for OLPC to enable support for standard Linux, BSD, Haiku etc?
Can the customer buy the XO laptops with 3rd party BIOS already installed on the hardware, because flashing BIOS is a dangerous operation for newbie users?

What kind of BIOS compatible with OLPC, is it Phoenix / Award, American Megatrend, Unified Extensible Firmware (UEFI), GNUFI, U-Boot, OpenBIOS or other BIOS?

Thank you.

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