Dear Ron,
Am Samstag, den 02.12.2017, 21:26 +0000 schrieb ron minnich: > Over the last few months I discussed reviving the LinuxBIOS name with a > number of folks inside and outside the coreboot community. I still pretty > much own the name: for old times's sake I kept the LinuxBIOS Inc. > corporation and linuxbios.org domain name. > > There was a strong feeling that using the name LinuxBIOS for this new > project did not make much sense, largely because we're not building a BIOS; > and, also, it might confuse people with the old project or with coreboot. > > After some iterations on a new name I proposed the name LinuxBoot and that > seems to work for people. So we use the name LinuxBoot not linuxbios. Yes, that makes much more sense. Thank you for coming up with that name. > There are two uses of LinuxBoot today, one is Trammell's HEADS/Linuxboot > work and the other is our NERF work, where NERF is LinuxBoot + u-root. > > There is a linuxboot mailing list already, as well as a github.com/linuxboot > organization. We'll keep the source on github and we will probably continue > to use github for our web presence as well, as we do for u-root with > u-root.tk. I can’t find the mailing list. Could you please share the URL (and put the list in CC)? Regarding the content of LinuxBoot [1], it will mostly then be documenting stuff, how LinuxBoot can be achieved? > As I said in my talk at ELC, coreboot is the preferred path for opening up > firmware when that is possible. But LinuxBoot has an important role to play > now for several organizations where coreboot will not be used. > > And, as Paul mentions, I see LinuxBoot as useful both on coreboot (replace > ramstage with Linux) and as a replacement for UEFI (since UEFI is > essentially a ramstage) or even where we replace a large part of UEFI with > Linux, but retain the DxeCore. There are many possible ways to implement > LinuxBoot. Indeed. Thanks, Paul [1] https://github.com/linuxboot
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