[OpenBIOS] Bootloader

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Mon Jan 5 20:15:37 CET 2004


On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Samuel Rydh wrote:

> > Perhaps when the time comes to boot an operating system with openbios
> > yaboot and linux will be good candidates.
> > 
> 
> Hehe... this is already working.
> 
> I've been merging the Mac-on-Linux mini-OpenFirmware (which did not
> parse forth code but provided all the client interface callbacks
> as well as filesystem support) with OpenBIOS. There are still some things
> to do but overall the merge is pretty much finished.
> 

what is interesting is that linuxbios works on PPC. 

So a full linuxbios->openbios->your code exists, if anyone wants to put it 
together, that would be all open-source.

ron



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