> I don't know. It's not real efficient in the non-DoC case. I think when I
> did measure it it was 4k.
hmm ok ...
> Given that the total of linuxbios is 30K or so, what will that buy? I'm
> just asking. To jump to memory in a PCI slot you need to do a fair amount
> of work, so why not just boot Linux at that point?
Because I'm running more than 512k worth of software with my kernel ... mind
you my current kernel is 300k (I'd like to know how you squeezed it to 30k) ...
my initrd is just under 2mbytes, and I have a technology partner who's prepared
to make some modifications to his PCI card, to my specifications ... Basically,
I can run all of the BIOS specific crap on a small flash in the DIP32 socket, then
when the universe is resolved I can jump to the common stuff in the PCI bus
somewhere ... should be cheaper than playing with the DoC too ... should be
able to format off the Award BIOS and use the existing chip ..
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