OT, Linuxbios usage...

[Adam Sulmicki]

>> 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?

that's the job for xen, not LinuBIOS

 	http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/