Comment Re:BIOS ? please not ... (Score 1) 122
CodeGen is looking at supporting a 64-bit native version of SmartFirmware
on the Hammers. You would be able to directly boot a long-mode x86-64
O/S from either flash, disk or the network, without any intervening
boot loaders. Certainly not the current mess of boot into 16-bit real
load the 512-byte L1 boot loader, load the L2 boot loader, switch to
32-bit protected/flat-mode, load the L3 bot loader, load the O/S, or
variations thereof, that are currently done. The O/S would then
be able to use the client interface to query every attribute of
the system just like Sparcs and PowerMacs.
How much support would there be for this project?
on the Hammers. You would be able to directly boot a long-mode x86-64
O/S from either flash, disk or the network, without any intervening
boot loaders. Certainly not the current mess of boot into 16-bit real
load the 512-byte L1 boot loader, load the L2 boot loader, switch to
32-bit protected/flat-mode, load the L3 bot loader, load the O/S, or
variations thereof, that are currently done. The O/S would then
be able to use the client interface to query every attribute of
the system just like Sparcs and PowerMacs.
How much support would there be for this project?
