Hello,
I've been watching the this list since early 97, and I'm now in a
position to put some of this stuff into action.
What I'm wondering is whether it would be possible to rip out
the flash bios from a standard motherboard, and replace it with
a new one consisting of the linux kernel + very basic setup code +
custom software.
>From what I can see motherboards seem to come with between 256k
and 512k flash. I can get everything I need in 512k, but is all of
this addressable?
Any pointers to the following would be helpfull :
1) Is there a possibility of it working or am I just insane ?
2) Info on what the kernel needs to startup, does it rely on the
bios at all after startup (I don't need video).
3) Info on how the bios is started up, I'm assuming the processor
just starts executing instructions at a fixed address.
Thanks
Stephen.
