For the last few months I have been claiming that I had an STPC linuxbios project
comming up
"real soon now"
Well that day of that project is finally here. Only now its not an STPC based project
anymore.
Now is a 400 Mhz Celeron 440BX based system with 2 C&T 69000 Video processors and a
ISA->PCMCIA bridge with 64Megs of RAM. No other storage rather than RAM will be in
the
production unit. (Prototypes have IDE and CF connectors)
The system is suppoed to boot up init a PCMCIA network card snag all its settings from
DHCP,
Pull down a real kernel and boot. The real kernel will mount it's root file system via
NFS.
I would like to use linuxBios as the bootloader. Otherwise we are going to have to
fork
over some cash and buy one of those bios developement kits. We have TinyBios but it
dosen't
support 440BX.
Things I don't understand or are not clear from the webpage.
- Satus of 440BX support there appears to be at least one motherboard booting
with the
440bx chipeset. Correct? What kernel is being used?
- How much flash does one have to have on the MB? Flash is expensive..We are
probally
going to build 10k of these a year so saving .50 or $1 on a smaller flash part is
worth the
effort.
Whats the minimum size of a linuxbios+linux system that can do TCP/IP?
- LOBOS status and use?. Is this still the way to do the linux-boot-linux
thing? The
code from the webpage was a pain to patch into a kernel since it dosen't use the
./linux/ as
the top of the kernel tree. I managed to patch 2.2.17 with judicial use of symbolic
links
but I don't understand how to make my patched kernel boot another kernel with out
running
the included lobos command.
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Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc.
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Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
