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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   >>> Might be able to leverage this for eCS boot code (or future    
   >>> OS/2-based projects)?   
   >>>   
   >> No you wouldn't. It's replacement firmware, not operating system    
   >> software.   
   >>   
   > Can't we learn something from it though?  There will be examples of    
   > tapping into interfaces that our loader currently has no clue about.   
   >   
      
   Once again:  It's not an operating system or an operating system    
   loader.  It's replacement firmware.  There won't be any "tapping into    
   interfaces" because it isn't a loader.  It's what loaders (the so-called    
   "payload") run on top of and use.   
      
   And what's this "our loader" business?  I for one don't have any stake    
   in the IBM OS/2 kernel loader.  It isn't mine.  It's IBM's, last that I    
   looked.   
      
   I know of only three groups outwith IBM that have stakes in OS/2-clone    
   kernel loaders.  The OSFree people have their own loader, which is    
   (we're told) based upon the old FreeLDR loader from  David C. Zimmerli    
   (not to be confused with the ReactOS FreeLDR).  They're the only people    
   with an interest in "our loader", and they'll tell you as I do that    
   firmware source code doesn't show how to *use* firmware APIs.   
      
      
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