hey, peter, code wins :-) go for it On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:08 AM Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >
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