[LinuxBIOS] ADLO & biosdecode

[Stefan Reinauer]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> Hello Jun,
>
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:54:42PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
>   
>> If I use the original QEMU BIOS, at least biosdecode reports BIOS32
>> Service Dir + PCI IRQ table + ACPI.
>>
>> So why LinuxBIOS removes those information?
>>     
>
> This is on purpose.
>
> One motivation for LB is that most if not all interfaces that are
> associated with the term BIOS should be deprecated.
>
> LB does not strive to be BIOS compatible by design.
>   
But this is not true for Jun's setting with LinuxBIOS + ADLO.

I don't think we remove anything on purpose there.

Jun, maybe you are using the 64k Qemu BIOS instead of the 128K version?
In that case you won't see BIOS32 services.



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