[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
> O.k. redboot is now on the top of my list of bootloaders to play with.
> With a little luck this looks like a general solution 256K ROMs.
Hmm. The concept is great but I don't know about the implementation.
I plugged in an eepro100 and compiled in support for it into linuxBIOS.
But no luck.
I compiled with the debug option and looked at what it is doing.
For starters it tries to user interrupts, but doesn't (yet)
have support for the various interrupt routing tables.
Further it looks like it's DMA setup does not work.
On the subject of size redboot doesn't look too bad but it is
relatively big. With only a serial driver compiled in it is 32K.
Unfortunantely and confusingly redboot doesn't appear to be as good
running on the without a classic BIOS as the linux kernel is. Ouch...
Adam if you can get a pci device to work redboot looks like looking
into but right but except for the fact redboot boots from linuxBIOS
out of the box I'm not getting warm fuzzies from it :(
Eric
