Or you can go the opposite direction. I have been using an sst49lf016c 2MB flash in a motherboard with an AMD8111 as the southbridge. Then I used the kboot project to build a kernel and initrd that fits and can kexec from ide, usb, or network.
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The Leader in Application Traffic Management Ensuring secure and optimized application delivery for global enterprises -----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of Ronald G Minnich Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 11:41 AM To: Arc Riley Cc: linuxbios@linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Error in FSF high priority listLinuxBIOS description
Arc Riley wrote:
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:45:28AM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
sadly, linux got big and flash got small.
Linux can still be compiled down to under a meg, especially if many of
the post-boot things are compiled as modules.
yeah, but it needs to be under (512-32)K. Plus, you need to stuff an initrd in there for basic utilities.
That's been harder.
ron
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