[OpenBIOS] More comments and a proposal for priorities

[John Labovitz]

Markus Kaufmann <kaufmann at pks-software.de> said:

> A BIOS isn't something that you change daily like the newest
> developer kernel. Once you have a perfect BIOS, you should never
> change it.

to interject a philosophical point here: this is why we're doing an
*open* BIOS project -- to rid ourselves of the accepted myth that Thou
Shalt Never Change The BIOS (unless the manufacturer tells you to, via
an upgrade).  

yes, we should make it clear that BIOS changes are dangerous and could
result in a nonbooting system, but that doesn't mean that someone who
got some fancy new file system, device, etc., shouldn't be able to
boot directly off it once the BIOS extension is available and
installed.

however, i do agree with the general point of not cluttering up the
new BIOS (and our time devoted to this project) with too many
features; things like grub-in-bios should definitely be considered
options that are worked on in parallel or sequential to the core code,
and compiled/linked in optionally by the user or distribution.

john

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