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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] linuxboot Option ROM for Linux kernel booting
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:23:01 -0700
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Nguyen Anh Quynh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am thinking about comibing this ROM with the extboot. Both two ROM
> are about "booting", so I think that is reasonable. So we will have
> only 1 ROM that supports both external boot and Linux boot.
> 
> Is that desirable or not?
> 

Does it make the code simpler and easier to understand?  If not, then I 
would say no.

	-hpa