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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am a
potential student applicant for the Google SoC 2007 program. And I am strongly
interested in the LinuxBIOS project, especially for the “GNUFI or
TianoCore payloads” idea. I have some background of EFI-related
development, such as knowledge about (U)EFI spec. and EFI driver/application
development in the Tiano platform, etc. But I know little about hardware
or chips.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The “GNUEFI
or TianoCore payloads” idea is to </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>get an UEFI implementation as the
LinuxBIOS payload. Essentially, LinuxBIOS need to provide the interfaces for
the GNUFI or TianoCore core foundation for this purpose, I think. I wonder whether
this project idea, namely “GNUEFI or Tiano payloads”, needs the LinuxBIOS
hardware platform for development environment and some chips knowledge. Or some
emulation development environments are enough.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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