IDEA: Linux kernel and pcbios compatibility...

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Fri Dec 19 00:47:00 CET 2003


ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> well I sure like the idea of using linux for the bios, as always ...

Regardless of the actual details what I like is the added requirement
that we attempt to support the legacy pcbios interface.  It's ugly it's
nasty but if we can do that with a Linux kernel driving the hardware
we have a single solution which can work for everyone.  Some people
can strip it down and not include all of the features but...

Eric




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