On 13 Dec 2000, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> It isn't a seperat universe.
> There are a few things that we need to do in the linuxBIOS code.
> 
> Turn on RAM, Enable cache, Turn on RAM, Turn on RAM, IRQ routing tables, Turn on RAM.
> 
> But very little else.  
> 
> For interesting functionality that all should be built into linux.
> You really can't run any programs until you load a linux kernel anyway.


you got it. 

> But linking linuxBIOS with linux just sounds wrong.

yes. 


> linuxBIOS has only one job boot a linux kernel.  Anything
> that can be moved to kernel space should do so.  If you can do
> something safely from linux it should be removed from the linuxBIOS (core).


yes.


ron

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