[LinuxBIOS] Booting windows from LinuxBIOS

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Al Boldi <a1426z at gawab.com> [070504 14:02]:
> Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > * Al Boldi <a1426z at gawab.com> [070504 06:38]:
> > > > Mitch wrote a fast path resume from RAM for the OLPC Geode hardware.
> > > > Once you've done that, you find that you've done just about everything
> > > > to initialize the hardware in the first place; so that code is now
> > > > used both at boot time and at suspend from RAM time.
> > >
> > > I suppose this was done by relying on the ACPI tables?
> >
> > No, no ACPI involved.
> 
> Not even the init tables ACPI depends on?
 
What init tables?

No, OLPC uses no ACPI.

> > Definitely. This is already happening - There is a GSoC project (going
> > to be done by Jens Freimann) to get a better integration between OFW and
> > LB done.
> 
> I was more thinking of merging the projects; or is there an advantage of 
> keeping them separate?

This is like merging the Linux kernel and glibc. They're doing different
stuff.

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