Re: [OpenBIOS] Proposals for development stages - OpenBIOS

13 Aug 1999


      Does, anyone out their know how to get the DMI 2.0 spec.
//Ross
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From: James Oakley jfunk@roadrunner.nf.net
To: openbios@elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] Proposals for development stages
Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 3:29 AM
"Joseph D. Foley" wrote:
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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.
Didn't know it existed. It's interesting reading, but too narrow.
What we want to know is what BIOS calls the kernel uses and then hash
out new ways of achieving what is needed. APM is one example, there's
also memory reporting, hard disk parameter passing (LILO isn't
infallible on large drives), USB, PCI, etc.
It won't be an easy task, unfortunately. I think we can come up with
something though.
James Oakley


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