legacy BIOS usage

Adam Sulmicki adam at cfar.umd.edu
Mon Dec 8 09:05:00 CET 2003


On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Ryan Underwood wrote:

> any ideas on that topic?  It would be nice to use FreeDOS occasionally
> for testing some external hardware control programs, but FreeDOS
> requires a PC BIOS, of which there are no open source implementations
> that I know of. :(  Maybe that can be a project for the future, but
> somehow I see a lack of interest in putting any new effort into a dead
> platform, so using the legacy proprietary BIOS might be the only real
> world choice.

oh sure there is. see "SEBOS" project in linuxbios v1 cvs tree. It boots
windows, and windows 98 wasn't that far off.

-- 
Adam Sulmicki
http://www.eax.com 	The Supreme Headquarters of the 32 bit registers




More information about the coreboot mailing list