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"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> 
> Hmm.  You must mean similiar to milo.
> 
> Have fun.  With linuxBIOS I'm working exactly the other way.  Killing
> off the BIOS.  And letting the initial firmware be just a boot loader.
> The reduction is complexity should make it more reliable.
> 

... except that you have to handle every single motherboard architecture
out there now.

	-hpa

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