[LinuxBIOS] Booting windows from LinuxBIOS

[Al Boldi]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> Al Boldi wrote:
> > So, what made OLPC switch from LinuxBIOS to OFW, and why can't
> > the two projects be merged?
>
> 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?

And, wouldn't it make sense for LinuxBIOS and OFW to join forces?


Thanks!

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Al