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Asahi Linux progress report

Posted Mar 12, 2021 10:47 UTC (Fri) by geert (subscriber, #98403)
In reply to: Asahi Linux progress report by rsidd
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In Android, Linux has overtaken the role of the BIOS in the IBM PC?

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Asahi Linux progress report

Posted Mar 14, 2021 18:19 UTC (Sun) by WolfWings (subscriber, #56790) [Link] (1 responses)

In some cases, essentially yes. Even some niche x86 hardware are booting Linux as the "bios" and then that in turn can kexec a final Linux image, or failing that you're already in a 'rescue shell' instead of having to explicitly reboot into one. And in some distros they do likewise so you can end up passing through 2 Linux kernel's before reaching your actual login prompt in the 3rd layer. CoreBoot -> Linux Payload -> Linux as a Bootloader -> Linux Desktop

Asahi Linux progress report

Posted Mar 19, 2021 9:36 UTC (Fri) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link]

I didn't mean any of the solutions using kexec (milo/kboot/petitboot/...) to boot Linux from Linux, but Linux really being the common ground.
MS-DOS ran on anything providing the PC BIOS API.
Android runs on anything providing (a specific) Linux userspace API.