[OpenBIOS] BIOS Changes...

[Benjamin Scott]

Jon Torrez wrote:
> Would is be possible if there were a OS interface to the BIOS that was
> able to change options in real-time; without having to reboot the
> machine?

  I suggested this in my "initial" post; we should definately have an
open standard for at least querry/set operations.  More difficult is
having such config changes take effect without rebooting.  Linux doesn't
really depend on the BIOS for much after boot anyway, so changing the
BIOS config won't help Linux itself during operation.  DOS might
benifit, but it tends to keep just enough config info in memory to screw
up things.  Win95 might benifit, but I think you'd also need a way to
communicate such changes to the device abstraction layer (if it is even
possible, Win95 is pretty horrid for things like this).  I won't even
bother thinking about NT.

						-- Ben <hawk at ttlc.net>


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