[LinuxBIOS] Error in FSF high priority list LinuxBIOS description

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed May 3 20:41:19 CEST 2006


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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