ebiederman@lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
Stefan Reinauer stepan@suse.de writes:
- Eric W. Biederman ebiederman@lnxi.com [031013 15:23]:
Sorry about that.
I fixed it for Solo, others will follow once I have the Solo up again.
Before we declare this 2.0 instead of 1.1.xxx we should really have a target that will build everything in the tree that a person has the compilers for.
This would probably mean building only the linuxbios image without a payload, since the payload paths differ pretty heavily across the targets.
Yes. I think so. I have some plans afoot to enable flashing from rom images directly from ELF formated rom files instead of a raw binary image. Once that comes to pass relaxing the payload requirement should be much easier. Allowing us to flash and build linuxbios and the payloads independently. The tricky bit is figuring out the proper distribution format, so a novice user can't mess it up.
Ah! My cue I think.
Being a novice user. I currently run the Mandrake distro. I'm not entirely clear where LinuxBios leaves off and the normal distros take over. Or even if it works that way at all.
I *very* much like the idea of having as much of my system as possible open-source, and I'm also keen on the fast start-up the website suggests However, I'm concerend at the possibility of trying to re-flash my bios, making a mistake and finding I have an unusable motherboard.
Can someone help me get a clearer understanding of what is involved?