"McMechan, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And now in the class of crazed thoughts is
Hmm. I'm obviously to terse. I have suggested this whenever it has come up and you think the idea is still crazy... It definentily would work, and with a little care it could run under Plex86/Bochs for testing. With LinuxBIOS doing the hard stuff it could very easily be hardware independent. > 3..2..1..elfBIOS > > have LinuxBIOS load a old style BIOS as a elf image :) > > since LinuxBIOS already sets up most of the needed hardware you could > write it in "C" and just implement something like the list from the > Plex86/Bochs BIOS INT calls. > Which are commented and mostly just call out to the emulator functions. > It might even be possible to switch back to 32bit protected and use the > LinuxBIOS functions. > Or create a elfBIOS IDE polling driver > And since it would be a "real" BIOS it could call out to the VGA ROM. > Of course the whole principal is rather silly but I think it could work. > Think of it as a joke. > LinuxBIOS->elfBIOS->NTLDR->WindowsNT --- is it not silly? BIOS as a second > stage loader;>) > > back to lurking... Eric
