On Thursday, January 23, 2014 06:10:39 PM David Hendricks wrote:

I missed the discussion on IRC. But FWIW, I have been working on making a small initramfs image consisting of busybox and a few handy tools (flashrom, iotools, pciutils, usbutils, networking support, etc). I hope to polish it up in the not-too-distant future and make it easy to build in the ChromiumOS SDK (Portage-based). If you're interested to try out a snapshot I have put one up here (built for i386): http://goo.gl/a2kwE0 .

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Perhaps we can call this LinuxBIOS :-)

Who provides the BIOS services? :) Alex