[LinuxBIOS] Booting windows from LinuxBIOS

[Al Boldi]

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?

> 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.

You mean ACPI was 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.

I was more thinking of merging the projects; or is there an advantage of 
keeping them separate?


Thanks!

--
Al