--- "Eric W. Biederman" ebiederman@lnxi.com wrote:
I just got the vgabios emulation working in the
LinuxBIOS. The VGA card
Man thats excellent news. Were the in-kernel patches from scitech soft helpful?
is complete inited before the kernel is loaded.
I've learned from the vbios guys that the term for this is "POSTed."
I am trying to see if it looks possible to put LinuxBIOS with VGABIOS support and a linux kernel all in a 1M rom chip.
In response to scitech softs request about getting the emu into the kernel Paulo Marques did some work on reducing the size of x86emu by reworking a lot of the instruction calls to be multi-function and removed a lot of duplicate code. He felt that with some more work it would be possible to get the emulator down to 32k.
All that in 1M should be possible. I was able to get General Sofware's bios + kernel + initrd in 1M on our last board and that setup contained kexec, TCPIP,ext2,pcmcia,ornoicoo drivers and a minium set of pcmcia tools compiled with uclibc. I think I topped out at 960k.
===== Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc.
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