On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:02:31PM +0100, MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote:
Question, then : will LinuxBIOS allow booting from (specifically) a RAM device in one of the USB ports?
LinuxBIOS, ADLO and Bochs could be made to boot from USB storage but it needs some work. I don't think Bochs does USB storage.
If so, I can almost certainly make a bootable RAM-stick, one vague area being that Illumination runs in VGA graphics mode?
I for one would really love to see you port Illumination over to Linux instead. While I realizes it's designed around DOS and legacy PC architecture I think a forward port is by far the cleanest solution, and where effort is best spent. Of course, that's just my humble opinion.
As far as the OLPC platform goes, there will never be a VGA interface at least with an open source BIOS, so that will be a showstopper. The Linux framebuffer API is fully supported however, and X on top of that as I've understood it.
//Peter