On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 13:42 +0100, Seb James wrote: > 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? >
No. LILO (and GRUB) call traditonal BIOS calls. We don't support that. Why do you want LILO? Nobody is using that even on desktop. > > - 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 > -- Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Los Alamos National Lab _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
