On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Alan Grimes wrote:
I have been studying operating system design for years in hopes of writing my own. I strongly agree with Colin, Hardware info, init, and drivers should be in the bios or somewhere outside of the kernel... Even linux moves many drivers out into loadables... =) This trend is good. It is still fairly kludgy but its better than having everything inside the kernel.
well, that's ok. I've been doing OS for years. If you look inside the kernels long enough, you'll find that the bios did not help you as much as you think. It tends to get things wrong. Also, there are things you'd like to be able to do that you can't because companies like Intel hide them in proprietary BIOS code.
I have to say, having done OS porting and development in both BIOS and non-BIOS environments, I've found the non-BIOS actually much easier. The assembly code hackers who write BIOSes are not all that good, and they are certainly not concerned about making life better for us open source OS types.
Your comment about loadables really has no relation to BIOS or non-BIOS. those are very different issues.
ron
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