OT, Linuxbios usage...
Peter Karlsson
petekarl at student.chalmers.se
Thu Jan 20 10:59:00 CET 2005
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> So you mean some sort of HAL like the VM on a IBM370 does.
Yes.
> Possible but linuxBIOS is a _long_ way from that. And it's not really
> compatible with its overall goal which is to get the hardware up
> enough that a linux kernel can take over. Load a payload into ram and
> jump to that.
I know. But isn't one of linuxBIOS goal to have a stable, remote
configurable bios for use in clusters? Wouldn't a vm (or hal if you will)
be even more useful than a Basic Input Output System?
> The qemu is a target in V2 if you start working with that you may be
> able to do what you want.
Yes, it looks interesting...
Thanks for the input!
Best regards
Peter K
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