The firmware we used in the Hobbit boards we built a few years ago was a Plan 9 Hobbit kernel with a different address mapping, a segment mapping physical memory available to segattach and a different /boot programme. You could attach to a fileserver to get programmes to boot. You could also execute programmes from the fileserver, like rc...
--jim On Fri Jul 22 11:37:04 EDT 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 7/22/05, Richard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > it will be even more fun with the newer BIOSes (e.g. EFI) that support > > > arbitrary driver modules, tasks, and can even run programs. All stored on > > > a flash file system on the mainboard. > > > > Didn't HP (many years ago) make a desktop machine with Unix in ROM? > > > > -- Richard > > > > SRM firmware was almost unixy enough on DEC Alphas... But it could be > "interesting" at times > > >
