>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?
I don't see any problems doing this, see discussion 'Startup.s'.
Before our board was made I was doing exactly the same thing,
on standard PC, but with qnx (thrust me there is no big
difference between qnx and linux - later is better). 256K flash
is pretty low, but you can pick up the rest from PCMCIA (ATA) flash.
Oleg.
