[OpenBIOS] probably the last questions
Ronald G. Minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed Feb 16 12:47:09 CET 2000
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Kent Nyberg wrote:
> Are you just trying to put a Linux kernel in the bios, or will you put
> an advanced bootloader there? Or will you put both there (bootloader and
> kernel)?
I am putting linux there. I have no interest in anything else on our
cluster -- linux is what we run.
> How much code can you put in the bios?
1 MByte.
> Since not much seem to have changed on the bios front the last 10 years
> i don't think they can be that big... ?
They're huge. The phoenix bios is over 1/2M. For all that size what it
gets you is a not very useful piece of code. Do you want 1/2M of phoenix
bios or 1/2M of linux image :-)
> Oh, i have noticed that some linux mailinglist seem to NOT like if one
> write alot on the mailinglists.. is it the same here?
Please write a lot and ask questions. Also, if you want to help, that
would be good too.
ron
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