"linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>> "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> When the linux-BIOS group started, few knew where to start. Then,
>>> mysteriously, there was a complete directory tree of a well-known
>>> BIOS that appeared on the web. That was a start.
>>
>> Nope it wasn't. None of the developers even read the code.
>> We needed to keep our hands clean.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>
> Standard disclaimer #123
And it is true.
It's not like a mess of 20 year old spaghetti assembly is a useful
starting point for anything.
I sat down and I read the relevant standards documents and what
chipset documentation there was and I manged to write code.
It's not like there is anything fundamentally hard about what bootstrap
firmware does.
Not to be insulting but disbelief here sounds a lot like SCO's assertion
that Linus couldn't written linux.
Eric
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