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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: The way of mapping BIOS into the guest's address space
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:38:05 +0400
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 05:35:47PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:20:18PM +0800, Yang Bai wrote:
> >> And will seabios replace the present bios implement or co-exsit?
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> wrote:
> > Ideally we should get rid of our minibios completely and only have
> > seabios here instead.
> 
> No, no, they should co-exist. There's absolutely no reason to force
> people to use a BIOS to boot Linux.
> 

I meant run-time (ie in memory). I didn't mean substitude our minibios,
but rather have an ability to either run with compiled-in bios or with
seabios instead.

	Cyrill