ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes:
On 19 Dec 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Now if you had more than a proof of concept implementation of most of the pieces I would not be happier, but anyway...
I kind of miss the point. Pink's been booting with linux in ide-flash for a year, and if the flash on pink were large enough, we would have been using that instead.
Possibly proof of concept is the wrong term.
What Pink does works. I can't throw J. Random kernel at beoboot and have that work. I can't throw memtest86 at it and have that work. I can't use an SMP aware kernel with beoboot. And last I looked beoboot had a bulky user space that makes it hard to squeeze into flash as well. So beoboot with 2 kernel monte works for a certain interesting subset of cases but it does not handle the general case.
Except possibly for the exotic driver case 512KB is a large enough FLASH chip to put in both LinuxBIOS and a kernel. You have to work at it with a 512KB flash chip but it is doable today.
Eric