[LinuxBIOS] Booting windows from LinuxBIOS

[Stefan Reinauer]

* 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. ACPI is far too slow and broken to do the task.
It's a mixture between the Open Firmware device tree and FCode.
Reinvented poorly.

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

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.

Stefan

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