From:	damon AT WRONG DOT redshift DOT com (Damon Casale)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Porting DJGPP to EFI?
Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2001 23:35:00 GMT
Organization:	Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
Message-ID:	<3ab2a1c2.852553@news.redshift.com>
References:	<3aa7fc10 DOT 1016687 AT news DOT redshift DOT com> <2561-Sat10Mar2001193606+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Newsreader:	Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243
X-Complaints-To:	newsabuse AT supernews DOT com
Lines:	23
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:36:06 +0200, "Eli Zaretskii"
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>> From: damon AT WRONG DOT redshift DOT com (Damon Casale)
>> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
>> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 21:48:36 GMT
>> 
>> I'm hoping that people here have at least heard of EFI.  Is there any
>> interest in porting DJGPP to EFI?  I don't think I'd be up to it,
>> myself.
>
>How much is it different from DOS?

It's somewhat more primitive at the moment (Intel may expect the OEMs
to flesh it out, since they're the ones who will be using it, by and
large) although it's 32-bit and open-source.  Interestingly enough,
you can selectively keep or remove certain pieces of functionality
(like FAT 32 support or shell commands) when compiling the OS loader
executable.

Damon Casale, damon AT WRONG DOT redshift DOT com (remove the obvious)
It would be nice if it had NTFS support...

- Raw text -