On Mon, 3 May 1999, Matt Porter wrote:
> On Mon, 3 May 1999, Naushit Sakarvadia wrote:
[snip]
> > I consider if I want to remove BIOS from my Single board computer?
[snip]
> There are gains to be had for bypassing the firmware...notably the
> flexibility of having your own slim bootloader and no bloated BIOS boot
> sequence to go through. However, the overhead to get there is enormous.
> Bringing modern high-end systems up from scratch can be a PITA. Also, if
> you want to take your code to an updated hardware platform when a new SBC
> comes out, you have to rework your entire bootloader.
I wonder if the OpenBIOS people could be convinced to support as one of
their build targets a software-only configuration. Since they plan to
support all (most?) BIOS functions, being able to build the BIOS so that
an embedded OS could use them would be useful. Since they plan on
supporting different chipsets, a software-only version could just be
considered a different chipset target.
http://www.openbios.org/
--Jeremy
Jeremy Impson
Network Engineer
Advanced Technologies Department
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 607-751-5618
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