Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 20 May 2002, Andrew Ip wrote: > > > > - Boot from floppy > > > - Boot from IDE hard drive > > > - Boot from SCSI hard drive > > - Boot from USB hard drive > > - Boot from 1394 hard drive > > > > > [snip] > > Just Kidding! > > that's the DEC Alpha SRM and the Intel EFI > > Anyway, just a reminder we ought to be careful.
Agreed, but so far I don't see people asking for any of these. For a wishlist the goal is to see what people want/need. And then we can evaluate what makes sense to build. The SRM problem is that despite sharing device drivers with VMS it doesn't support a lot of hardware. And it isn't open source so you can't fix that. EFI has a lot, but it's size is large. But I am deliberately what eventually needs to get built. It looks like flexibility, and good abstraction layers is one of the biggest requirements. Eric
