ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 19 Dec 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > The observation has been that any sufficiently general firmware > > bootloader tends to become an OS, so why not use a real OS. > > ah ha! we've come full circle :-) > > good to hear.
I have never disagreed. Now that we have something that works for the low end limited ROM solutions I can revisit some of the more interesting ideas. > > So the things I actually care about are: booting over myrinet, > > booting over inifinband, booting over quadrics, booting over a pair of > > bonded nics. Having a good tg3 driver. Getting Lustre as my root > > filesystem. Unless size issues kill it again I am going to use the > > linux kernel as my bootloader to do this. > > yah, this is why we still put linux in flash here at LANL. Now if you had more than a proof of concept implementation of most of the pieces I would not be happier, but anyway... Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
