On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 03:32:15PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > Given that the "pc" sense of BIOS includes having arguments returned in > > x86 registers, I really don't think that's true. > > ARM has registers too... > > My point is, the ARM chips *do* support an on-board flash bootloader, > and there's no reason why that bootloader couldn't export a standard > ABI that uses interrupts and register passing, and boot off a standard > attached disk... I think you misunderstood Richard. ARM hardware is moving towards adopting UEFI as the standard firmware interface, which is BIOS-like in the sense that you're describing. Richard was explicitly talking about BIOS-as-in-x86-asm-and-int-calls being preferable to UEFI. There's no real way ARM could implement the latter. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
