Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
If any students out there are interested in coming to Los Alamos to work this summer on linuxbios you should get in touch with me. I need help with other motherboards and we want to look at the Alpha.
Thanks
This sounds like an awesome opportunity! =)
Please tell me more aobut what kind of logistical arrangments would be involved.
I'm a DOS user who *HATES* all other OSes despite the rapidly diminishing usability of my current system. I have a sound understanding of assembly language programming and operating system design. I would love to assist in any way possible. =) I would like to try to extend the OpenBoot standard (used by GRUB) to include a generic driver system. My intrest in this stems from the fact that I am trying to develop my own OS which will have its own set of bootup specifications.
As a general rule you should not put user level software such as operating systems in firmware, rather it should be on a random access disk on chip solution as could be designed into the motherboard or installed via a PCI card... (this is an ancient tenant).