Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060830 14:37]: >> 2) Get as many coders as possible involved. Create incentive to try >> LinuxBIOS, which will result in active contributions in many >> cases. It's crucial to have support for a wide range of hardware, >> as only that will really ensure a wide-spread use of LinuxBIOS >> (I'm especially thinking about desktop machines here). > > Unlike normal userspace programs or even kernels, recovering from a bad > bios can be quite some work. How do we overcome this? Not everyone is > going to buy a galep iv for 400$, nor a bios savior for 30.
In Germany you can get cheap flash chips at http://www.bios-chip.de/ . SST 49LF008A (8 Mbit FWH) only costs 8.50 Eur, which is really affordable. With such a chip, there is no need for a BIOS saviour. And 8 Mbit is enough even if you want to fit a complete kernel in ROM. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
