>
> > Nearly 100% of "modern" Flash Memory devices either emulate an IDE drive
> > in Hardware or have emulate a standard BIOS disk device using some sort of
> > BIOS driver, usually in such a way so that it will boot a DOS-like OS from
> > it.
>
> Which brings up the question that keeps nagging at me: How possible is
> it to create a pc bios that is geared towards BSD/linux? This would
> include its own lightweight repair shell. Couldn't this solve a lot of
> problems with pc hardware, to have a unix-oriented bios?
No. If you think about what BIOS code actually does, this should really
be fairly obvious.
In all reality, new BIOS features are actually directed towards the same
sort of problems that we're facing, even if the process is driven largely
by Microsoft. Take a look at eg. ACPI to see what I mean.
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