Why waste time on that?
USB stick should be big enough to put (kernel+Initrd)elf in it.
LinuxBIOS-->FILO in Etherboot-->ELF on USB-->console... flash_rom and get image from USB too.
YH
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:43:47 +0100, Stefan Reinauer stepan@openbios.org wrote:
- Gin ginlin@nexcom.com.tw [050222 12:47]:
If it's just about reading a file from usb and writing it to flash, you might want to have a look at filo. It should be easy to integrate the functionality of flash_rom into it, so you don't need a full blown
linux
system in flash.
That will be a good idea if FILO can launch the flash_rom program but I thought FILO is excepting a bootable image. So I guess the effort will be in "How to make FILO run an executable?" Don't' know if I miss anything.
The idea is rather to add the code of flash_rom into filo and have filo's filesystem layer only load the flash image from usb. This should be doable in a whole of 30k I would bet. Since both filo and flash_rom are rather small and clean, integration should not be too much of an effort. Otherwise you would have to add minimal console and libc functionality to flash_rom which filo already has.
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