There are several lists of required bios services e.g. Alan Cox put one out
for Linux
The places I would normally look would be either bochs.com or plex86.org
since theses two
projects have dos/windows booting and have emulated a bios (GPL/LGPL I
think).
Their purpose is just to run the target code with a emulated machine. They
have problems with
interacting with other bios pieces like VGA bios.
Since this application would have the real hardware (rather then emulating
it) that should be less of a problem.
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> From: Richard A. Smith
> Reply To: Richard A. Smith
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 08:51
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Can Linuxbios boot to dos or windows?
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> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:51:04 -0600 (MDT), James Hendricks wrote:
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> >Besides having a slightly cooler desktop, I don't see any reason why
> >anyone would figure out the Windows/DOS booting, except possibly
> >motherboard vendors who want to get AMI and Pheonix's $10/board profits.
> >I think LinuxBIOS is for the embedded market (clusters seem to be a
> subset
> >of embedded).
> >
>
> Actually our next product could use that feature if it were
> available. It's a general purpose medical computer. Basically a
> really specialized laptop and our client wants it to be able to run
> the Windows family of OS's in addition to Linux.
>
> As well as reclaiming that $10/board there are lots of other hassles
> involved with dealing with the BIOS vendors that we would prefer not
> to have to deal with.
>
> Just how many bios services would we be talking?
>
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