On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:08:42PM -0500, Eric Seppanen wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:54:43AM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > > > well we can name it anything. The problem is openbios is taken. Since the > > source tree is called freebios we could call it that but the problem is > > name changes are really hard to propagate once they "take". I'll wait for > > other comments. > > > > The only thing I can see needed mods to boot other-than-linux is to change > > the 'linux' command in the python tool to some other name, such as > > 'payload', and specify the full path to the file, not just the > > directory. Then we've got Eric's uniform boot and we can do what we want. > > > > So, folks: rename or not? > > If you do, why call it ____bios? It's not a bios, and the name causes > confusion. Witness the less-technical folks who show up here regularly > wondering if they can replace their factory bios with linuxbios for their > home machine... > > I could easily suggest [open|free|net|tiny|fast]-[boot|launch|start] or > anything else, but BIOS has had a specific meaning for 20 years, and this > ain't it. I agree. Working with the National Semiconductor Geode platform I'm using their BLDT, BootLoader Development Toolkit. This includes all code neccessary for initializing their specific hardware but no interrupt services, which is mostly what a BIOS is known to provide. I myself like openboot. Or maybe someone creative could sit down and think about it for awhile and come up with a completely different name that's alot cooler. Kickass Inexpensive Cuddly Kernel At System Start Or simply KICK, with the analogy to a motor bike. Excercise of coming up with what KICK stands for is left to the reader, since I can't come up with something good, right now. :) //Peter -- Peter Stuge H�rdvarubolaget Ideon S-223 70 Lund Sweden GSM. +46-736-601011 Tel. +46-46-2865011 Fax. +46-46-2865199
