> I wonder if you could clean-room most of this. ... This was much discussed in the early days of the PC; if memory serves, it's basically the approach that wa

> I wonder if you could clean-room most of this. ... This was much discussed in the early days of the PC; if memory serves, it's basically the approach that was taken by the first successful cloner of the IBM PC BIOS [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies#Cloning_the_IBM_PC_BIOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies#Cloning_th.... Also http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/33839.html http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/33839.html