On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 05:56, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Regardless of the actual details what I like is the added requirement > that we attempt to support the legacy pcbios interface. It's ugly it's > nasty but if we can do that with a Linux kernel driving the hardware > we have a single solution which can work for everyone. Some people > can strip it down and not include all of the features but...
Or - cf the PXE discussions on etherboot-developers - have the stripped version as the "normal" code and load in the pc bios services as required. Indeed, why not add a "legacy layer" to OSs which need it, so that rather than adding the code to the loader, add it to the *loadee*; the common services can be lean, mean, open source, virtualised or whatever we please. _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
