Dear All,
I'm completely new to LinuxBios, and I'm trying to understand exactly what it does, and what it offers. Trying to decide exactly how interested I am. Could you please forgive my ignorance and clarify the following for me please:
Does LinuxBios run on the main processor or on some auxiliary processor?
What is the typical power consumption of a LinuxBios moboard running the minimum number of devices to do basic communication over ethernet - hopefully only the moboard and the network card if it isn't already on the moboard will require power, then I need to know processor consumption - here the earlier question about what does the processing becomes relevant.
Can LinuxBios be used to do complicated wake-on lan? Here minimal power consumption in the idle state becomes important to me. (question of fairly high interest to me)
Does LinuxBios help with running multiple operating systems simultaneously? (high interest)
Does it accelerate booting, because where previously first the bios loaded, then grub, then the OS proper, now perhaps booting can go straight from LinuxBios to OS?
How often can one typically write to the bios before it won't take any more changes? I understand it's flash, so I expect few thousand times, more if one rotates which memory blocks one uses, but on the other hand this isn't exactly flash that is designed to be rewritten very often, as far as I understand anyway! Can one fairly easily and at a competitive price buy replacement chips?
I very much appreciate any help you can give, because you've already done this kind of stuff.
A short introduction is probably in order: I'm a mathematician, so a bit of an amateur where computer science is concerned. I'm getting into writing linux device drivers at the moment.
Best Wishes, Max