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+Legacy bios emulation
+---------------------
+
+goal of this software is to initialize pci devices with legacy x86
+option roms with no regard to the underlying platform. Use legacybios
+as an ELF payload to LinuxBIOS/etherboot.
+
+Currently this is really hackish and it does not work, but it's on the way.
+
+Using a trampoline, this code could be shrinked to be really small
+on the x86 platform, since no cpu emulation is needed.
+Currently all platforms use x86emu for testing.
+
+--- to be done ---
+
+ Stefan <stepan@openbios.info>