> > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Justin Cormack wrote: > > > ah, I have a bunch of these (well, a different manufacturer but clearly > > exactly the same part). Very good for firewalls etc with the dual ether. > > I wrote a watchdog driver, wafer5823wdt in recent kernels, for them. What > > flash part did you use? Or how did you boot it? > > so far this is all etherboot, given the tiny tiny flash. > > I'm going to have to think about using Eric or Ollie's code and making a > romtype of 'SAN'. The idea here being that linuxbios can use compact flash > as a ROM the way it uses DoC etc. now. Then we can actually put something > useful on the cards.
Well one nice thing about these boards is that they have the CF socket on them already. But it is mapped as ide. Oh I think I see what you mean: have a doc-type "ipl" on the bios flash which does a minimal ide init and shifts the front end (say) of the ide device into RAM, then executes from there? Justin
