I want to build some custom hardware and run linux on it. I'm planning
to go with something like a Mobile Pentium II processor and a southbridge
chip. I don't care if this hardware is "PC compatible" or not, in fact,
I don't want ti to be as its unnessary and adds costs to custom hardware.
My question is, is it possible ot boot the linux kernal directly from
ROM. IE: No BIOS, just a rom at mem location 0 that starts up lilo and
loads the kernal into RAM. Has anyone done this or seen it?
Those doing embedded linux on non-intel platforms must do something like
this as there isn't always a BIOS around.
(And linux doesn't really use the bios at all, does it?)
Thanks for any advice-
Jay
