From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
To: Adam Sulmicki <adam@cfar.umd.edu>
Cc: Linux Kernel Maillist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: about bios
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 08:28:17 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0305060823470.21072@filesrv1.baby-dragons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030505193733.T76699-100000@www.missl.cs.umd.edu>
Hello Adam ,
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-05 22:50 about bios Halil Demirezen
2003-05-05 22:45 ` Thomas Horsten
2003-05-05 23:04 ` Halil Demirezen
2003-05-05 23:08 ` Thomas Horsten
2003-05-05 23:52 ` Adam Sulmicki
2003-05-06 8:03 ` Thomas Horsten
2003-05-06 10:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-06 12:28 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere [this message]
2003-06-18 14:43 ` Adam Sulmicki
2003-06-18 15:18 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
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