"Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Try for 2 bootloaders. > > Big: Built on the linux kernel + kexec patch supports booting off of > > everything. > > Even the sun if you can find it. > > > > Small: Built from scratch from the ground up. (probably a derivative of lbbl) > > > We take pieces from the linux kernel, and grub, and whatever as > > needed. > > But we keep a real small target like 64KB or something.
> Sure ... and that is probably the most sensible (for our size restraints), but > by definition we must seperate ourselves from the kernel ... which is a > shame ... but necessary until the flash size is usable (or DoC IPL gets > big enough to support a more common/generic IPL code). The nice thing is that right now this is our big problem. You have to climb an awfully long ways up hill to get this far. And this is only a problem on machines designed for general purpose uses. Embedded systems have larger ROM chips so can do more. I really want to find out what the rom situation is with AMD760 MPX chipset. If I read it right this is the first non-intel system with LPC only support. Which makes large roms much more practical. But I still might be reading the situation wrong. Eric
