On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
> Yeep. You don't know Fra Dolcini, do you? That looks like a Really
> Unpleasant Undertaking. 8(
It's getting there. Also SiS is now a supporter. Long term, we may see
motherboards specifically designed for the OSS community, with real docs
yet. Also, I can't see any way to get to 3-second reboot (one of the
things we need) given the stupid way BIOSes work. PXE is not an answer.
> cluster hardware over for a pile of IA64 boxes just yet, but it strikes
> me that it'd be easier just to write a userland flash updater than to
> rewrite the BIOS from scratch. 8)
You haven't look at how intel designs and documents some of their
motherboards, particularly the L440GX+. They won't tell people what they
need to know to update flash on this one. Result: you have to boot DOS to
upgrade flash. Stupid of them.
Also, there are an amazing number of advantages to having a real OS in the
flash. Once you start thinking about it, it becomes hard to live without.
ron
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