From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] restoring x86 BIOS state before reboot
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:23:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070511182329.GJ4052@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070429094135.GA10948@suse.de>
Hi!
> > It may also be worth investigating if it is possible to bypass
> > the part of windows that uses BIOS calls. I really don't have
> > a clue how a modern windows systems boots.
>
> I think ReactOS has a bootlader that can also boot Windows, or at
> least they are close to booting the Windows kernel. That bootloader
> could be then used for booting Windows without BIOS calls.
>
> I also heard that the 100-$-Laptop should now be able to use Windows.
> As it's using LinuxBIOS, this could also be interesting. However,
> maybe Microsoft simply modifies a special Windows for this, or they
> integrate a ClosedSource part in that LinuxBIOS, I don't know ... :-(
I do not think OLPC is using linuxBIOS these days. What they have
certainly looks like Sun's ROM monitor.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-11 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-06 15:46 restoring x86 BIOS state before reboot Bart Trojanowski
2007-04-06 17:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-29 6:51 ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-29 9:41 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-04-29 14:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-29 16:28 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-11 18:23 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-05-11 19:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-11 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-11 21:11 ` yhlu
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