On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:26:55PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Extensions could be "stackable" and configurable for certain > application goals: > * legacy emulation for VGA and SCSI init > * elf loader > * openbios kernel
Something like splash image support could be in the extension. I have one for VESA SVGA but it's a too strange thing to be in the core. I know supercomputer guys will hate it, but I believe some kinds of embedded systems will need it. It will be displayed ealier than disk spin up. I also developed a standalone bootloader, by putting together the IDE driver from Etherboot 5.1 and filesystem code from GRUB, with keyboard (as well as serial) support and a simple line input routine to boot arbitrary ELF files in the filesystem of disk. It's an ELF image for now, but could be ported to LinuxBIOS, then I can save space for printk etc. > On the other hand, it has certain advantages as well, the code can > probably easier integrate an x86 emulation, like milo/srm do on alpha > and some free ARM firmware implementation does as well.. I'm totally ignorant about non-x86 architecture, but it sounds cool. -- Takeshi _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios