On 10 Aug 2002, Eric W Biederman wrote: > > > A couple motherboard manufacturers are talking to us and they understand > > the need for bigger flash, so will do it. > > We will see.
I should mention they're not all in the x86 space. When you get out of that x86 mess things get much more reasonable. > As for performance you would have to make a good case of how Linux > equals etherboot. The actual Linux drivers are more highly tuned, but > it takes seconds to get the loaded, at which point etherboot is > already gone, and has loaded the final kernel. assuming modules .. > There is a very big disadvantage to using Linux as a bootloader, and > that is you need to ask it shutdown all of the the hardware it has > initialized, and restore the hardware to it's boot time settings or > some approxmimation thereof. this is important. You're on the money. We either have to get clean shutdown or we have to have a way to tell linux "it's done already". Or we give up on linux as a bootloader. ron
