Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anybody seen a new motherboard for sis 730 that has 32dip?
>
> This 256KB FLASH thing is getting to be more, not less of a problem.
> Anybody out there have a clever idea on how to get around it?
I guess as I see it. linuxBIOS is small. We just need to make certain
we have a bootloader that is also small.
A unix style kernel without a network stack can be small enough to fit
comfortably in 32KB uncompressed. So it becomes a matter of getting
a small unix kernel we can use. For what we want to do that is really
the long term solution. We just need to either send the linux kernel
on a diet (my prefered option) or start with something like uzix and
build it up to the point we can use it.
Being safe from the becoming a hacked operating system problem is more
important than reusing drivers. Though being able to reuse drivers is
nice. And as long as we limit ourselves to a certain subset of the
common cases so we only need to write drivers for industry standard
hardware we are in good shape.
Eric
