On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Ian wrote:
> Roughly how many bytes are chewed (less the DoC support)
> initializing the VIA sets, before the kernel is launched? 1k? 2k?
I don't know. It's not real efficient in the non-DoC case. I think when I
did measure it it was 4k.
> I'm just investigating better routes ... I need ram init'd
> (dynamically), pci started, etc ... I want to jmp to a memory slab in
> a pci slot ...
Given that the total of linuxbios is 30K or so, what will that buy? I'm
just asking. To jump to memory in a PCI slot you need to do a fair amount
of work, so why not just boot Linux at that point?
ron
