On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 01:37:39PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Which leads me to a rant about ARM. Grrrr RANT!! I didn't think
> I'd ever love the BIOS, but compared to the alternatives (UEFI and a
> million different ARM bootloaders) it's simple and effective.
This is getting way off-topic, but... most linux-capable ARM chips
support a BIOS in the "pc" sense. Vendors choose not to do it that
way.
Given that the "pc" sense of BIOS includes having arguments returned in
x86 registers, I really don't think that's true.
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