-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 December 2003 4:04 pm, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > 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.
*jumps up and down like a hyperactive two-year-old* LAB can do that stuff! I would definately like to see LAB used on more than just ARM. > > > 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. If you can have it in the kernel you can have it in LAB. LAB's command line API is really easy - I've ported userland apps (mtderase) to LAB in sub-10 minutes. As to size issues, we're at a 512k zImage. We do not have bzImages on ARM, so I could not tell you the size with it. 512k is with a few ARM-specific drivers, and jffs2. It does not have networking. This is with kernel 2.6. > > yah, this is why we still put linux in flash here at LANL. Oh and did I say LAB had MTD support? :) > Now if you had more than a proof of concept implementation of most > of the pieces I would not be happier, but anyway... *jumps up and down* I do I do!! > Eric /joshua - -- Joshua Wise | www.joshuawise.com GPG Key | 0xEA80E0B3 Quote | <lilo> I akilled [EMAIL PROTECTED] by mistake In memoriam | Whiskers the hamster, 2001 - Dec 15, 2003 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/43VVPn9tWOqA4LMRAtiDAJ9sxXhTis+n1hpCvmX4gDc32ycTCwCdGwCB 2BMzNV/IHpx46g6tRljOdkk= =u9wv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
