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Comment by tremon

OpenFirmware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

Many systems get by just fine with a minimal ELF or multiboot loader and a firmware-provided devicetree specification. Dynamic hardware enumeration is performed by every OS anyway, the only hardware that must be initialized is the bootloader/kernel storage.

For the x86 platform, this could be implemented via coreboot (libreboot always reads to me as lib-reboot) with a multiboot payload.

parent tremon 4 years ago

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