"Larry G. Linde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Since there has been a large amount of discussion about many things relating
> to:
>
> A: fitting linuxbios into a 256k flash
> B: booting via etherboot from same flash.
> C: console mode to select different boot images.
> D: failover boot if one fails
> E: other misc things.
>
> We have a version of many of the items above for the SiS630 chipset. It has
> been tested on the matsonic M7308e
> And the procomp bst1b motherboards. We have decided to post our latest
> efforts to the net a bit early.
Cool thank you.
I think with a little work we can come up with a clean interface so efforts
like this can reuse linuxBIOS without hacking it.
As far as using standard BIOS tables that is a very practical thing,
for long term maintenance I'd like to come up with some of our own that
are multiplatform. But for the short term it seems a good idea.
Does this sound like a reasonable idea to you?
> It is not really linuxbios but it uses large parts of the linuxbios code
> tree with heavy mods.
>
> Our goal is a bit different than the standard linuxbios effort. We do not
> want the entire kernel in flash.
> We want the ability to boot from a disk or network ie: replace the bios but
> work better than an a bios for Linux.
I have been work towards linux not being the only thing linuxBIOS can
boot from flash for a while.
The reason for placing a linux kernel in the flash is primarily so we
don't have to write two copies of every driver. For really
complicated twisty hardware a full kernel is very useful. For easier
hardware your solution might be preferable. Assuming the maintenace
isn't too bad.
Eric
