Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for Intel Little Valley

[Michael Ost]

> Ron Minnich wrote:
> But don't get scared! If 8 Mbit is too large for you, you can still
> get a lot done with FILO  in 256 Kbits.

OK, good.

Just so I understand, with FILO as the payload will linuxbios get us to 
the bootloader step faster than the current Intel bios? Is that the 
primary benefit?

Also, we wouldn't have the ROM capacity to actually boot straight into a 
linux kernel.

- mo

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[LinuxBIOS] Support for Intel Little Valley

[ron minnich]

On Dec 17, 2007 10:54 AM, Michael Ost  wrote:
> Just so I understand, with FILO as the payload will linuxbios get us to
> the bootloader step faster than the current Intel bios? Is that the
> primary benefit?

one benefit. Also, there are no DRM-like features in linuxbios, and in
future BIOSes DRM is pretty clearly going  to be there (masquerading
as system management mode code).

And, you can control the platform and do interesting things, as DRC
and Xtreme data are doing by putting an FPGA into an opteron slot. The
BIOS has to cooperate with that.

ron