Re: [OpenBIOS] comments and ideas

[David Woodhouse]

[e-mail] said:
> Stephane Boyer wrote:
> > we already have a 16bit bios! and they work well enough. if you dual-boot
> > dos/Linux , fine stay with a 16bit bios, but if you only use Linux,
> > wouldn't you want a bios that was specificaly made for it.
> No. I have several linux servers here. Durign the rarity that they
> reboot I could care less about the BIOS.
> On my own workstation I have DOS, NT, 2 installs of OS/2, and Linux.
> That's where I need the flexablity of a new BIOS (with boot loading
> features, etc)

Agreed. We should (IMnsHO) concentrate on getting the normal BIOS up and 
running before adding the esoteric new features - we want to change one thing 
at a time. Getting it to work at all is going to be complex enough, without 
changing the kernel boot procedure at the same time.

Clean 32-bit boot functions are a reasonable goal, but we need the basics
first, and we need to formulate a proper specification for the 32-bit interface
before we even think about implementing it. Let's leave it till later, and try 
to design something that other OS's will consider using.

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