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Re: [PATCH] Initial i386-ieee1275 support
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Robert Millan |
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Re: [PATCH] Initial i386-ieee1275 support |
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Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:20:33 +0100 |
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:08:51PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
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> What hardware is it for? XO?
Yes. Although I did the port on qemu (but it's known to work on XO).
> How is it different from i386-linuxbios? Doesn't LinuxBIOS imply
> OpenBIOS, which is (or strives to be) ieee1275 compliant?
LinuxBIOS (now CoreBoot) is just the low level initialization. OpenBIOS
is an implementation of IEEE-1275 that can be run on top of CoreBoot as
payload.
Our i386-linuxbios port makes GRUB run as payload directly, where it has
to access hardware by itself, etc.
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Robert Millan
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