On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Margareta Coddé wrote: > I'm looking to use Linux for a specific task: > Playing DVD's and receive DVBS feeds and recording them. > But : it's a stand alone system and I'm thinking to write my > own bios/kernel where the bios is a stripped down version > of a award bios en somking of kernel that handles dvd/dvbs For the beginnings of a commercial-bios-free solution, you might look at LinuxBIOS - http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/ (record boot time of 3 seconds from power-on to login-prompt, yow!)
