On Mon, 5 May 2003, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
> 'was working'? The project is alive and well.
> It is much more than just embedded systems. In fact with recent addition
> of legacy bios support we are able to boot other operating systems (BSD,
> Win, etc). Being able to boot Windows provides easy migration patch to
> Linux :-)
> By the way. Yes you can burn the linux kernel into flash (together with
> linuxBIOS) and boot it this way. But given that many motherboards limit
> your flash size to 256KiB you probably want to put the kernel on the
> CompactFlash over ide nevertheless. Interestingly enough if not this size
> limit we might have ended up using Linux Kernel as hardware initalizator
> to some degree.
Thank you for the update . I had been to the site every so often
looking for updates to the chipsets known to be usable . Just do
not have a system I can spare if I foobar the flash .
> <shameless plug>
> In fact we are presenting a paper on LinuxBIOS booting other operating
> systems this summer during Usenix 03.
> </shameless plug>
I am hoping that after the usenix conferences there will be
a URL for the rest of us to view this paper ? Tnx , JimL
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