ramesh bios wrote:
I have been thinking about getting the AMD-PIC at some point to port linux on to it. Currently, they're being sold with Windows CE on it. Apparently, it has a gensys bios on it that only loads "signed" OSes. I did notice that Linspire announced that they have a Linux port for it so that's a step in the right direction.
We looked at the PIC for the LinuxBIOS port. It would just need a socketed flash dropped in for development. The port is straightforward since the docs are all available.
Any x86 Linux distribution would work for the OS. The whole idea of the signed BIOS and OS is so that if you were using the device say in the middle of Mongolia, a service call is out of the question if the user loads some app. that would require an OS reinstall to recover a crashed system.
-Bari