There is no need for Lilo - you can either use FILO or even Etherboot itself for IDE booting.
The IDE Flash DOM will be just fine! I already have a large amount of the Geode stuff working under V2 (It is booting Linux using Etherboot from a DHCP/TFTP server currently (which is what I need for my project), but I will be testing other options in the near future too. I am currently being pedantic and making sure everything is clean and also finding little inconsistencies in certain aspects of the core code from place to place. I also have a small technical issue comitting code, but that should be sorted out after thursday when Stefan gets back to the office, after which I will commit the V2 stuff for the Geode. Of course I can always use some help on the port, and this would be most welcome - I am a bit of a newbie to the V2 structure, and it took a fair amount of time to get to my current level of understanding, and I by no means profess to know a lot about V2! The only issue I forsee is how long it will take for you to get up to speed with the environment? By the way - you are on the wrong list - this particular list was threatened have been depricated a while ago - I am copying this message to the correct list linuxbios@openbios.org, so that the thread continues, and I would strongly recommend that you make any further postings on that list, as the plug could be pulled on this list at any time - (Ron when will that be happening?). Hamish > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Seb James > Sent: Mittwoch, 27. April 2005 14:42 > To: LinuxBIOS List > Subject: RE: DiskOnChip and PLCC32 packages > > > On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 13:57 +0200, Hamish Guthrie wrote: > > There are still no devices in PLCC32 - the only discrete > devices are in DIP, > > TSOP and uBGA. > > The Millenium included a piece of SRAM from which it was > possible to do a > > limited amount of XIP, but it appears to be dead now - I am not > sure if the > > new devices have that SRAM technology in them or not - I have gone off > > Disk-on-chip personally - they are too restrictive with docs. > > > > There is no reason at all not to use a DOM solution on the IDE bus with > > something like FILO - it should just work > > Great. Would LILO also function as a payload for LinuxBIOS? > > > - there are also lots of > > alternative vendors for IDE-based DOM solutions by the way. > > > > Is there ANY other flash memory device on your Geode platform at all? > > Nope :( It has the bios chip (256 KByte/2 MBit PMC PM49FL002T) and an > Apacer IDE flash DOM plugged onto a 44 pin IDE header. > > > And to answer your previous question - of course LinuxBIOS > works with 2.6 > > kernels! > > Good news. > > Thanks for the information. Do you have any prediction on how long you > might take on the freebios->freebios2 Geode conversion? Would you like > some help on it? I'd really like something to be working within a couple > of weeks (!). > > Seb > > -- > Hypercube Systems Ltd 'Embedded Linux Solutions' > 35 Walkley Crescent Road, Sheffield, S6 5BA > Tel: 0845 4580277 Web: www.hypercubesystems.co.uk > gpg key: http://www.hypercubesystems.co.uk/ssl/seb.gpg.asc > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - Release Date: 25.04.2005 > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - Release Date: 25.04.2005 _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
