--- Stefan Reinauer stepan@coresystems.de wrote:
Yes it has been done as a proof-of-concept but as far as I know Linux-as-bootloader never made it into any product (that I know of)
There are at least two "super-BIOS" implementations that rely on a tiny Linux kernel loaded from Flash ROM:
1) SplashTop by ASUS (http://SplashTop.com) Source code, including kernel patches, are downloadable: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=915&num=1
2) Hyperspace by Phoenix Technologies: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/phoenixs_hypers.ht...
Both of these run X.org, so I'm sure we'd need even less flash storage for a text-mode interface.
The Linux-tiny project maintained by Sony also has patches to reduce kernel size: http://elinux.org/Linux_Tiny
Vlad
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