[LinuxBIOS] USB Support <WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios>

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Mon Jul 3 19:47:05 CEST 2006


Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> Bari Ari wrote:
>
>> We are currently working on mainboard designs that will not have any 
>> serial ports with chipsets that don't have any serial ports. What did 
>> we decide to do with LinuxBIOS, since the future is now?
>
> I would most rather do what we're doing on OLPC: linux in flash, since 
> linux works well with usb.
That is the plan, LinuxBIOS in Flash. And since we're all AMD based, RAM 
setup is easier.

While I was at Computex Taipei last month everyone at the Intel suite 
seemed baffled that Intel would turn down so much business in embedded 
by not supporting LinuxBIOS. Then again Intel has made a few bad turns 
the last few years.

-Bari




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