Chris Ziomkowski wrote:
Second, the mainboards all come with an 8 Mbit BIOS flash. Will this be enough to boot Linux directly? There is no IDE capability on these boards, so the only disk options are USB or SATA. I don't need video support. There will only be a serial console.
Missed this on the previous response. Yes 8Mbit will work fine. OLPC was doing exactly that and we lose 128KiB to binary blobs.