[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Fri Oct 26 02:07:08 CEST 2007


On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:44:28PM +0200, Philip Schulz wrote:
>   I recently played around with LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD. In short, it
> somewhat works in QEMU using ADLO

Cool!


Do you know the FBSD boot process internals well?

I discussed this at Linuxforum.dk this spring with some FBSD people
and have a contact I can dig up if you want to pick up the ball.

The idea is to short-circuit all the BIOS junk that ADLO emulates and
have LB/elfboot/FILO start the kernel directly, as is done with
Linux.

Since the *BSD boot process is split into several steps that may not
be quite as easy as with Linux however.


//Peter




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