Question - why is everyone so hung up on getting everything inside the actual "BIOS" chip?
This clearly creates problems, especially when using motherboards based on "standard" PC requirements. A simple PC BIOS Flash chip is now very cheap. Why not settle for a target of:- 1) Replacing BIOS with a LinuxBIOS in the smallest space possible, ie cheapest common flash chip. 2) Using Compact Flash (CF), or other similar technologies, placed on the IDE bus that mimics a standard disk drive. As I understand it 1) is pretty much done. 2) May have been done but believe there is probably more support needed for trimming standard kernel + necessary driver/support modules to fit into smallest/cheapest CF devices. Am I alone in this? Regards, Nick Jarmany -----Original Message----- From: Ian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 February 2002 02:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Questions > 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. Yes, you guys have done an awesome job ... and is a privelege to be able to argue about something as cool as this :-) [seriously!] > 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. What's LPC? A replacement for DIP32? Actually, I was dumb-struck when I discovered that my new ASUS board has no ISA slots :-( All PCI ...
