Flash ROM and payload (All in the Flash ROM chip) ?

[Rick Ant]

I try to install Flash ROM,

but need zlib-devel and pciutils-devel,

I'm using Suse 10.1,

Can I install Coreboot + payload Linux without any Compact flash?
All in the Flash ROM chip ?

Anyone knows where to download those files ?

Thanks

[Harald Gutmann]

On Wednesday 24 June 2009 06:46:58 Rick Ant wrote:
> I try to install Flash ROM,
>
> but need zlib-devel and pciutils-devel,

Install the according -dev packages.
I don't know how they're called in SuSe.
> I'm using Suse 10.1,
>
> Can I install Coreboot + payload Linux without any Compact flash?
> All in the Flash ROM chip ?

Yes you can, depends on how big your flashchip is.
Flash parts are available with sizes up to 8Mb, and this would be enough space 
to put a whole kernel image & busybox into it. (Maybe even a tiny x server 
should be possible in 8Mb.)
> Anyone knows where to download those files ?

I don't think that there are pre-compiled images from coreboot available, 
which means that you need to compile your coreboot image yourself, which is 
pretty easy using buildrom-devel.
> Thanks

No problem, 
regards
Harald