On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:51:45PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote: > There is a tipping point there though - many people chose LinuxBIOS for > the very reason that you don't carry around many Ks of code that you don't > need.
Oh, in this case the differences are so minimal that the amount of unneeded code is almost zero, I think. > Even traditional BIOS vendors don't try this. To me the more > important thing is to show that the hardware support is there, and that it > is a simple build option away. Sure. > > Why is this good? Because a vendor can see that with proper design, a > > single bios image can support many mainboards -- even if the hardware > > differs slightly -- thus reducing the cost. > > I just think you have to be very careful - run time detection is not > what puts the butts in the seats. Only as an option, of course. We don't want to do this per default for all boards. But it's a nice option to have... Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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