Over the weekend I went to the UKUUG Linux Developers Conference in Edinburgh. http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/ Lots of great stuff, including a tutorial by Stephen Tweedie and a BOF we had on clusters and filesystems. Plus whisky and visits to the Festival Fringe :-) I gave a presentation on mini-ITX systems, sadly though I didn't run Linuxbios.
Josette Garcia from OReilly UK had her usual stand, with lots of tempting books. As usual, I could not resist adding to my collection. I bought the new 'Building Embedded Linux Systems' http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/belinuxsys/ Reading it on the train journey back home, I tought it is an excellent book. Lots of information on DoC, CompactFlash, filesystems -CRAMFS, JFFS2 etc. and their characteristics, methods of booting and creating bootable CFS, programming BIOSes. Could give people good information on DoC etc.
All in all, I would reccomend this book, as there are good general sections on the various architectures Linux runs on, and also an appendix discussing binary-only drivers, and Linus' attitude to them.
BTW, was it in this book that I read that from 2.5 kernels Linux will run on MMU-less 68000 CPUs? Time to dust down my old copy of "68000 Assembly Language Programming" from yea long ago...