[OpenBIOS] Re: A Plan. (was Re: Some Questions and ideas for gnu-bios)

Pavel Machek pavel at elf.ucw.cz
Tue Feb 17 10:26:27 CET 1998


Hi!

> > Right - that's enough of the theoretical waffle. What we need is a plan. Lots
> > and lots of these projects have died out because people spent too long talking
> > about them and did bugger all work.
> 
> Well it's ony been a few days.... : >
>  
> > I'd like to see a _really_ primitive skeleton BIOS up and running - just
> > enough to boot Linux, with no chipset handling or anything.
> 
> I was thinking about this. IMO if you put grub stage1 + 2 in the flash that
> just may be enough.

Hmm. I took a look at grub, and it is pretty ugly. I patched it quite
a bit.

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