[LinuxBIOS] Support for Intel Little Valley

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Sat Dec 8 16:38:15 CET 2007


On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 09:53:17AM -0500, joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
> A 512k chip is plenty big enough to fit LB+Payloads. I don't think you  
> would be able to fit a whole LB+Payloads+kernel+minimalOS on it though.

Indeed - for a minimal linux-as-a-bootloader setup, you currently need an
8Mbit chip.

I would advise at least a 16Mbit chip, otherwise you won't be able to fit
tcp/ip, usb, memtest, etc.

Thanks,
Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator




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