By bonlebon
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Published: Sep 08 2006 / 05:34
On many systems, a large portion of boot time goes into providing legacy support for MS-DOS. Various projects, including LinuxBIOS and Open Firmware, are trying to replace the proprietary BIOS systems with streamlined pieces of code able to do only what is necessary to get a Linux® kernel loaded and running. This article gives a brief overview of the field.
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Trevor Sullivan replied ago:
Sounds like mostly just speculation. They're presenting a possible solution, but as of now it's vaporware.
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