Making a BIOS on my own...

[Niklas Ekström]

Hi everyone,

I just thought I'd post a note on way I've decided to work on a BIOS of my
own. The main reason is that we are getting no where. It's not that I
don't want to be a part of OpenBIOS, rather on the contrary. But every
time I come up with some suggestion, atleast a couple of people will point
of how wrong I am, and the result is that we stand still. I find this very
frustration, since I feel that we should act now so we can have working
BIOS in half a year or so. No one will be happy by us sitting here
arguing without reaching anywhere. The greatest problem I see is that we
have no real (active) leader, that could take decissions for us and say
that this is how we are going to do it, now move!.

If things start to move around here later in, I would like to help out,
but until then I will go ahead and make a BIOS of my own. If someone 
happens to agree with my ideas of what a BIOS should be like (should be
pretty obvious from my previous posts), feel free to contact me on the
above email address.

/ Niklas

[Stefan Reinauer]

Hi Niklas,
> I just thought I'd post a note on way I've decided to work on a BIOS of my
> own. The main reason is that we are getting no where. It's not that I
> don't want to be a part of OpenBIOS, rather on the contrary.

This is a clear mistake of mine. I didn't do anything for OpenBIOS quite a
long time now.
> But every
> time I come up with some suggestion, atleast a couple of people will point
> of how wrong I am, and the result is that we stand still. I find this very
> frustration, since I feel that we should act now so we can have working
> BIOS in half a year or so. No one will be happy by us sitting here
> arguing without reaching anywhere.

True. The problem I see is that we are so far at the beginning that we
have no clear way to go for now but a lot of ideas and understandings of
things.
> The greatest problem I see is that we
> have no real (active) leader, that could take decissions for us and say
> that this is how we are going to do it, now move!.

Hmm.. I see this problem. I will do this from now on an I'd like to have
anyone who could take this when I am unreliable because of my work.

Regards,
    Stefan

[James Logan]

> > But every
> > time I come up with some suggestion, atleast a couple of people will point
> > of how wrong I am, and the result is that we stand still. I find this very
> > frustration, since I feel that we should act now so we can have working
> > BIOS in half a year or so. No one will be happy by us sitting here
> > arguing without reaching anywhere.

Hello,
    Umm, I personally don't really know much about what's involved
    in writing a BIOS, so I can't really contribute on the initial
    design and requirements generation ( I am opionless ). However,
    if someone would like to point me in a direction, I would love
    to start writing some code.
Regards,
Jim