On May 15, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Korakurider wrote: > On 5/16/08, Nicholas Negroponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Open Firmware V2, the free and open source BIOS, is now capable of >> running Linux, Microsoft Windows XP and other operating systems, >> and was >> developed by Firmworks with support from OLPC. This will enable dual >> boot of OLPC XO laptops with Microsoft Windows XP in addition to the >> existing Fedora-based system and will become the standard >> BIOS/bootloader for all XO systems when completed. With this "free >> BIOS," the XO-1 continues to be the most open laptop hardware >> currently >> available. > > I am not firmware-savvy but: what prevent windows from booting with > V1 Firmware and how do they resolved it? (that is Ivan mentioned in > his blog article?)
Unlike Linux, Windows requires a BIOS to perform certain operations for it (ACPI, for example). OFW v1 didn't support those operations. > What I would like to understand is security risk the change will > give users of our linux stack. Don't we really need to be worry about > that? We want to run on top of OFW v2 (or v1) because it supports our security model, whereas a plain BIOS doesn't. wad _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
