Hi,
Even I am planning to give a speech on LinuxBIOS. I found that some of the recent mail on this thread is useful for my preparation. Also when I was reading the HOWTO documents, I found that we need to burn Linux Kernel image along with the linuxbios image on DOC chip. If that is the case, Is there is any way to support for other Operating system (or) other flavor of unix system to use LinuxBIOS? What are the standard interface / Supports we expect from those operating system?
PLEASE IGNORE THE ATTACHEMENT....
Thanks, Siva.s
-----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Ian Castle Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 1:21 AM To: Christer Weinigel Cc: linuxbios@clustermatic.org Subject: Re: Need help with LinuxBIOS speech
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 16:01, Christer Weinigel wrote:
Cons:
Not as flexible as a normal BIOS.
I know what you mean ;-), but I don't think this is quite the right thing to say... as a key point of LinuxBIOS is its flexibility...
... If you want to be able to boot without a VGA card.. ... If you want to be able to preserve kernel state information over reboots etc.
....LinuxBIOS is flexible from the developer's standpoint...
However, LinuxBIOS is immature - it doesn't support as much hardware/boot devices as a "traditional" BIOS. So, given an inflexible feature set (boot typically from any local device via a local VGA screen/keyboard to run your mainstream desktop operating system) a traditional BIOS is quite flexible about what hardware you can boot from and what motherboards it supports....
..Anyway, I think linuxBIOS is "flexible" compared with a traditional BIOS, but has, currently, less support for the available hardware i.e immature.
Hope that helps!
Ian.
_______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios