On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Steve Gehlbach wrote: > I suggested this last year, with the comment that this is a more > traditional way that embedded systems start up. Your objections at the > time were that it would cause trouble with some motherboards, but I > don't remember the specifics. I was wanting to do this since it is > clear that we will be getting 2 Mbyte LPC soon and be able to boot > Linux easily out of flash (as I think you have already done).
you have an inconvenient memory: you were right and I was wrong :-) > One caveat I discovered, I could never get Linux to boot with a gdt > located higher than 1M. So even if you put a linux compatible gdt high, > it has to be moved to ram < 1M or linux hangs on boot. Never figured > out why (true for 2.4 anyway). we're not seeing this. We have GDTs in very high memory and it all works. Interesting. > Also, on the dynamic/static trees, one thing to consider in the mix is > the serial ATA. I think it is an external chip now but will be subsumed > into the bridge chips at some point. Not sure how a chip function > moving around like this affects the software design. I think it might work. On the Acer, the IDE controller has always been in that static initialization. In fact, the superio architecture was motivated by the acer chip. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
