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In-Depth Look At LinuxBIOS
DrSkwid writes "With PhoenixBIOS reading your email because of such inordinate boot up times for Windows and other OSs, it was remarked in #plan9 about our 5s boot times using LinuxBIOS. My friend f2f pasted an article from Linux Journal which looks at the basic structure of LinuxBIOS, the origins of LinuxBIOS and how it evolved to its current state. It also covers the platforms supported and the lessons they have learned about trying to marry a GPL project to some of the lowest-level, most heavily guarded secrets that vendors possess."
fragrant pussy?
But without a "Windows BIOS," how does LinuxBIOS know what to copy?
I'm posting anonymously for obvious reasons.
I'm a Teaching Fellow (TF) at Harvard, and I've been involved in placing students in work placements to get them to think about the real world before they leave these hallowed halls.
One student of mine put quite a bit of the debian linux system into the Basic Input Operating System (BIOS), only to find that the finished result of his placement was never used. The reason they gave him was security.
The BIOS company looked at the code he imported and said "riddled with security holes". They sent him packing. I felt really sorry for him, because he did not write any of the security riddled code.
Perhaps the BIOS should be kept as simple as possible, as we do not want the ability for worms to reprogram the BIOS and make the computer unbootable.
I have an Athlon64 based motherboard, I'd like to try this. So? How do I try it?
How about some instructions, can I flash my bios with this? or is this some type of special motherboard I'll have to buy because if I can't flash my current bios with this, this is a piece of crap I'm sorry.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
Ok, first why should I switch from the current BIOS I have to this one, make the case. Saying the word Linux is not making the case and neither is saying Open source. Is it better technology? Second, ok say I want to do this, how do I go about doing it? That site needs better instructions, it needs to explain the technology better. Simply put, their website SUCKS.
It sounds like a good idea but how does it work in practice? How about pictures? Benchmarks, test results.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
I can see why you posted as an Anonymous Coward, That joke sucked.