"Justin C. Darby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to get together funding for a research project at my company > to build a generic platform for high availability devices using Linux, > LinuxBIOS, etc, as the software portion. > > I had some general questions about LinuxBIOS I wanted to ask while I'm > still collecting information to report in my project plan. > > a) I have a requirement of a 4+ PCI slots, compact flash booting via > IDE, and a serial console. Video, sound, etc, are pointless for any > project we will take on. Onboard network ports are nice. What hardware > works best? I don't care about AMD vs. Intel, I want to know what > (hopefully easily available) motherboards are best served by LinuxBIOS > in general. If this is going to start a flame war, I don't mind personal > responses to this question. :)
We have at least one board with 6 slots and 4 PCI-X busses... > b) Are there any known problems running any types of PCI cards? High > speed serial, ethernet, whatever, or if it works with Linux, it should > work just fine? Only video.... And that is just initialization glitches. > c) Can Disk-on-Chip BIOS solutions be reflashed several times? I would > like these machines to be remotely upgradeable in all aspects while > having a local device to boot from. All recent BIOS solutions can reflashed several times. > d) Are any SMP motherboards supported? yes. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
