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What you're asking for is completely unrealistic. In my opinion (and the OpenBSD guys share the same view), firmware should be considered hardware as far as OS programmers and users are concerned. Many lithium batteries have firmwares, do you want the source code for that too? If you don't like your BIOS, that's simple. Buy a better BIOS or make your own.
Just because the guys who made your hardware chose to use flash memory instead of doing it at the hardware level should give you the right to modify it in whatever ways you see fit? What the hell? Are you going to demand for ATI and NVidia to release the entire schematics of their video cards so you can make a few changes and build your own custom video card?
Free software is great, but let's not be completely unreasonable here.