[OpenBIOS] Re: boy is EFI a kludge!

[Eric W. Biederman]

ebiederman at lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:
> 
> > OK, looking around, it's about what I expected.
> > 
> > However one thing we might be able to use: EFI is called from something
> > called SAL. SAL is real low-level stuff you will never see the source to
> > that does all the horrible stuff that Intel won't tell us how to do.
> > 
> > You don't need EFI. You need something to link to SAL that replaces EFI. I
> > think that's our hook.
> 
> So if intel won't cooperate we need to plan on reverse engineering SAL.  Unless
> IA64 dies soon it is probably a worthwhile investment.

Ron unless you have something better I'd suggest using one of the
upcoming dual Itanium/P4 chipsets as a starting point.  Then you could
be certain the chipset worked before on x86 before trying to reverse 
engineer the cpu initialization for the Itanium...  

That isn't a very aggressive plan but unless we start moving in a
hurry it is probably a very workable one.

Eric

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