[TUHS] Porting the SysIII kernel: boot, config & device drivers

[Paul Ruizendaal]

> On 31 Dec 2022, at 20:08, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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> In general, the idea of a BIOS isn't terrible: provide an interface
> that decouples the OS and hardware.
> Exactly - the idea is actually a good one.  But the problem was the BIOS designed/implemented by HW people, but OS folks.  Things like concurrency minimum use of the CPU was not in the higher order bits.

My limited experience of working with "board support packages" does support the idea that these are written by the hardware designers as a quick afterthought after completing the chip.