IDEA: Linux kernel and pcbios compatibility...

[ron minnich]

On 19 Dec 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> The observation has been that any sufficiently general firmware
> bootloader tends to become an OS, so why not use a real OS.

ah ha! we've come full circle :-)

good to hear. 
> 
> So the things I actually care about are: booting over myrinet,
> booting over inifinband, booting over quadrics, booting over a pair of
> bonded nics.  Having a good tg3 driver.   Getting Lustre as my root
> filesystem.  Unless size issues kill it again I am going to use the
> linux kernel as my bootloader to do this.

yah, this is why we still put linux in flash here at LANL.

ron