08 September 2006

Open BIOSes for Linux

"On many systems, a large portion of boot time goes into providing legacy support for MS-DOS. Various projects, including LinuxBIOS and Open Firmware, are trying to replace the proprietary BIOS systems with streamlined pieces of code able to do only what is necessary to get a Linux® kernel loaded and running. This article gives a brief overview of the field."

Click on the link below for the full article:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-bios.html

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