LinuxBIOS

[rajiv at alum.mit.edu (Rajiv Aaron Manglani)]

a company i used to work for did a bit of work with linuxbios and  
even shipped a few clusters with it. the blade servers did boot in  
under 5 seconds. we found that tyan had the most supported  
motherboards, probably because they actually have or had someone  
working full time on linuxbios. however, it was always a huge effort  
to port linuxbios to new boards, or update the bios on existing  
boards. unless you are working on large clusters, we found that  
linuxbios was not worth the trouble in a production environment.


On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:03 PM, Robert La Ferla wrote:

> James Kramer wrote:
>> I have read a short discussion about LinuxBIOS on the Free Software
>> Foundation Bulletin.  The Foundation strongly encourages people to
>> support AMD and Tyan because of their commitment to the project.  It
>> sounds like a neat and worthwhile project.  Does anyone have
>> experience with it?  It claims to cold-boot a computer in 3 seconds.
>>
> I haven't yet but anyone interested in it should check out http:// 
> www.linuxbios.org. BTW - I read that Intel is moving away from the  
> traditional BIOS with a new system called EFI (Extensible Firmware  
> Interface).  In fact, the Apple Intel-based Macs use it.
>
> http://www.intel.com/technology/efi
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface