[LinuxBIOS] Booting windows from LinuxBIOS

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Thu May 3 23:55:39 CEST 2007


Al Boldi wrote: 
> So, what made OLPC switch from LinuxBIOS to OFW, and why can't 
> the two projects be merged?

Mitch wrote a fast path resume from RAM for the OLPC Geode hardware.
Once you've done that, you find that you've done just about everything
to initialize the hardware in the first place; so that code is now used
both at boot time and at suspend from RAM time.
                           - Jim


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Jim Gettys
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