[LinuxBIOS] Booting windows from LinuxBIOS

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Thu May 3 09:09:32 CEST 2007


* Al Boldi <a1426z at gawab.com> [070503 05:51]:
> > Instead of implementing a VSA-free version of LinuxBIOS, all machine
> > setup is done in Open Firmware now, in a forth based assembler dialect.
> 
> I'm a bit confused.  Can you elaborate how OFW can replace/differs from a 
> normal/Linux-BIOS?

It is an implementation of IEEE 1275-1994 and it's extensions, written
in the programming language Forth. It's the firmware you might know from
the PPC Apples or SUN Sparc machines.

See more information on www.openbios.org

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