Re: My embedded linux project

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On 12.29.98 6:00 AM, Ken Yap said:
>No you don't *really* have to, Linux has it's own drivers for peripherals,
>but booting up with the BIOS has some advantages. The chipsets that
>are used these days need initialisation and the BIOS knows about them.
>Anyway the BIOS only occupies the top 64kB of the bottom 1MB and once
>the OS is running, all you lose is some memory space, and maybe not even
>that since you couldn't really do anything with that 64kB anyway.

Chipsets?  I'm building custom hardware because I want to get away from 
chipsets.  completely unnecessary for my task.  Plus, I'd have to go thru 
the expense of developing a custom bios and its not worth it.

Thanks for the info, though-

Jay