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Re: [PATCH] Initial i386-ieee1275 support
From: |
Pavel Roskin |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Initial i386-ieee1275 support |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:16:31 -0500 |
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:20 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:08:51PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >
> > What hardware is it for? XO?
>
> Yes. Although I did the port on qemu (but it's known to work on XO).
That's great!
> > 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.
I see. Thanks!
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin