Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been looking at what it would take to do ia64 with linuxbios. > > problems: > - PAL is code that intel ships to turn on the chip. This code will always > be in binary form. > - SAL is code that a vendor releases to turn on their northbridge etc. > This will also always be proprietary > - EFI is the worst firmware in the known universe. This is supposed to be > open and replaceable. HA! Intel and others have conspired to make this > very hard. > > So, we're looking at how to do this, but at the moment it is tough. > > The ia64 boxes also break all known records for slow boot.
EFI is a whacky version of dos, at least from a user perspective. SAL and PAL probably need some serious reverse egineering and replacing. After messing with the Alpha I'm not really interested in half measures. Eric
