I became interested in linuxbios a while back, and while I've subscribed to this list I've never done anything with it.
I've learned quite a bit more since then, and I'm even working on reading the Linux From Scatch book.
I've come back around to it again, for two reasons...I have a working laptop (IBM TP 390X), and an extra mainboard for the laptop. I have to do a password recovery on mainboard, but I was thinking if I'm going to go through the trouble, I would like to try something with it. Especially with the TSSOP flash bios chip within easy reach :)
The other reason...I've been looking at embedded applications lately, and I don't really feel like going the DIY hardware route...since I have access to a surplus source of IBM thin clients (403GCX PPC, PC87303 SuperIO, S3 Trio64V+ video, single PCMCIA slot, two EDO SIMM slots, parport, serial, mouse/keybd, DP83907 ATLANTIC II ethernet, and a whopping 512KB AM29F040 flash bios), which have everything I could want, except USB, which a PCMCIA card could fix.
What I want to do with one of the thin clients is put on linuxbios, and since I would be using the PCMCIA for USB, boot a compact system off of a USB memory stick.
I was wondering how far along things have come, and if anyone has done something like the USB booting, or even what other devices linuxbios can boot a system off of?
Also, after reading about all that's been done with the X-box project, and the mod chips they sell, I was wondering if anyone has had any thoughts on something like the Xenium X-box mod chip?