On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Adam Hunt wrote:

> How is the LinuxBIOS + EtherBoot HOWTO comming?  How large of a flash device
> is required for this?  Can anyone say what a typical boot time over an
> unloaded 100Mbit or 1Gbit network is via LinuxBIOS and EtherBoot?

well, I have not quite got it done. I'm on vacation :-)

> Have there been any discurssions between the LinuxBIOS and ACPI4Linux
> hackers about high quality ACPI support on 2.5/2.6 Linux boxes enhanced with
> LinuxBIOS?

no, who do we talk to.

> What is on the horizen for LinuxBIOS?  What is all this 32bit entry point
> stuff?

You mean Eric's patches to Linux? Or the VGABIOS stuff.

> What part or parts on a motherboard keep us from using larger flash devices?
>  Is it the chipset?  Processor?

Stupid motherboard designs, mainly.

ron

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