From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Initial i386-ieee1275 support
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:16:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1200442591.16148.1.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080115182033.GB31246@thorin>
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!
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-16 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-15 17:59 [PATCH] Initial i386-ieee1275 support Robert Millan
2008-01-15 18:08 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-15 18:20 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-16 0:16 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-01-15 18:17 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-15 20:04 ` Robert Millan
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