If the kernel can be tailed to (1MByte - LinuxBIOS size(64K *2)), There is no need for Etherboot or others.
YH
-----Original Message----- From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:13 AM To: Li-Ta Lo Cc: Eric W. Biederman; Stefan Reinauer; LinuxBIOS Subject: Re: status information
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
I bet there are a lot of people using CF in the embedded world, they can't use Etherboot to fetch the kernel from the net as you do. We should not only think about HPC applications. People in embedded market are in different enviroment and have different cost structure than you.
good point. The Sandia mini clusters use CF.
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, YhLu wrote:
If the kernel can be tailed to (1MByte - LinuxBIOS size(64K *2)), There is no need for Etherboot or others.
yes, as a reminder, the very earliest linuxbios machines we did at LANL were L440gx machines with linuxbios and linux in flash. No etherboot, no file, etc.
But linux grew a bit ...
ron
"Ronald G. Minnich" rminnich@lanl.gov writes:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, YhLu wrote:
If the kernel can be tailed to (1MByte - LinuxBIOS size(64K *2)), There is no need for Etherboot or others.
yes, as a reminder, the very earliest linuxbios machines we did at LANL were L440gx machines with linuxbios and linux in flash. No etherboot, no file, etc.
But linux grew a bit ...
The linux-tiny project seems to have gotten the growth under control.
Eric