A few weeks ago (mid March) I mentioned that I had some ARM boards that I'd like use as Linux development systems. Unfortunately, they come with CE, and while the manufacturer does supply Linux it's prohibitively expensive.
CE is booted from a partitioned CompactFlash card, and I initially thought that the code in the partition and filesystem boot sectors was relevant, i.e. that there was something equivalent to a PC's BIOS in Flash. However on inspection I think that the code is x86, which implies that the loader in Flash is reading and transferring control to the OS image directly.
Is it possible to build Open Firmware to look like a CE image, which would possibly allow this board (and potentially many other devices) to run Linux without modification to the content of internal Flash?