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LinuxBIOS Project Usenix Paper

Posted by timothy on from the bochsen dept.

caseih writes "The LinuxBIOS project has published a paper on using the open source bios code from bochs to help boot unmodified OSes such as Windows 2000, which was presented at the recent Usenix Conference. This was mentioned previously on Slashdot, but this paper gives more technical details on how they did it, some details about future possibilities, and their guiding philosophies behind this project."

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  1. OpenBIOS by turgid · · Score: 4, Informative
    OpenBIOS is another interesting free BIOS project for PeeCees which aims to implement the Open Firmware (IEEE 1275-1994) standard, as used on Sun SPARC machines and Apple Power PC machines.

    It's interesting because Open Firmware is based around a FORTH interpreter, using which high-level BIOS code is implemented. This code is portable across different binary architectures. This has interesting implications for the initialisation of peripherals. It also means you can program your own BIOS at a command line at system start up.

    There are loads of other uses, and it's already an establishged Open standard, and has been in use for well over a decade.

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