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From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
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Subject: Re: Ski port
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> Guys,
>
> I started working on the ski port today. I have it compiling, but
> not linking. I have to implement the FreeBDS syscalls first. A
> thought struck me: what if I, instead of implementing most syscalls
> so that ski can be used for user processes, I implement an EFI
> interface first?
>
> We're currently not really interested in userland code, so we're
> going to run ski in "raw" mode anyway. I should be able to hack
> something together that allows us to work on a real EFI bootloader.
> With a combination of fake and real ACPI entries we should be able
> to boot a kernel as if it was running on real hardware, right?
>
> Thoughts?

That would probably be pretty useful. It sounds like a *lot* of work
though. EFI is pretty extensive.

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