On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 19:20:49 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >> Bios extensions are called very early in the init sequence. > >What the heck are you talking about? linuxbios --is-- the init >sequence. >
Sorry... Still thinking out loud... Ok.. Take the stock bios that comes with the board. Cut out the section that boots, does mem init and what not up till it starts probeing for BIOS extensions. Build linuxBIOS.. but without most of the low level init code. Then build a 0xAA55 extension that jumps to linuxBIOS goes protected and never looks back. Cut and past the 2 together and re-flash I realize that this really makes linuxbios no more than a glorfied in firmware bootloader as most of the hard stuff would be already done by the time you got to linuxBIOS. Make more sense? -- Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 501.846.5777 x204 Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
