At 11:52 PM 2/9/99 +0100, you wrote:
I see two clear fractions here.
I do not see the two as being mutually exclusive. If we take a modularized approach, keeping in mind that the long term goal may be to create a complete BIOS, then building a boot-prom is still a reasonable first goal.
One still has to test/init the hardware and boot the system, wether or not you plan on providing API's by loading them from PROM to shadow, loading them from disk to shadow or assuming that API's are not needed because the OS has its own drivers (i.e. Linux and NT).
Dave