Your message is good, though I have some comments.
This is my attempt to figure out how OpenBIOS development should be run
Stage 0: divide BIOS into several tasks:
1 initialization of chipset - mandatory 2 booting OS from FDD - mandatory for the initial phase
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I sent a message a little while ago about how we should work with the Linux kernel people to define a new booting specification. Ask them what they want. We can implement that first and set up compatibility modes (DOS, etc) later, when our heads are more fully wrapped around this thing. I'm just waiting for some sort of confirmation or denial on this.
The linux kernel guys are sometimes a fussy bunch; such a spec already exists, take a look at MultiBoot standard at http://www.uruk.org/~erich/grub/boot-proposal.html, but I don't believe they've adopted it yet.
Joseph
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