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posted by tkchia Homepage, 04.07.2021, 11:03

Hello kerravon,

> But regardless, yes, I do have a requirement
> for PDOS/386 to be decoupled from the BIOS,
> and turn into PDOS-generic.

The usual way to decouple an OS kernel from the IBM BIOS is to get the kernel to work with other boot protocols. E.g. UEFI, Multiboot, (maybe) Stivale, etc.

There is no need whatsoever to make the kernel work on top of some other kernel. You mainly just need to make your kernel work with bootloaders other than IBM-compatible legacy BIOSes.

This is how modern versions of Linux/x86-64 work on machines that lack a legacy BIOS or have their legacy BIOS disabled.

Thank you!

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