Julius Werner wrote: > If you really can't stand the idea of BIOS interrupts and real mode,
I for one can't. > I think your next best option would be to try to cram an > as-small-as-possible binary recovery descriptor and the real mode > code to parse/load/execute it together into the 446 bytes of MBR > space you have. I like this idea a lot. Backwards compatible is hugely important. > This way, your new payloads can just find and parse/load/execute > the descriptor itself without having to provide any BIOS interface, > but the thing is still compatible with existing legacy BIOSes as > well.) I am sold. Ron, I will make you a deal: If we use Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR, RFC 7049) for the MBR data then its working format can be JSON. I'd be interested in writing the x86 code. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
