Peter Waltenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Having a PC that booted Linux directly from the (ex-BIOS) ROM , now that
> would be "interesting".
Been there doing that.
http://www.linuxbios.org
Eric
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"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> No it forbids executing boot roms that way, by a standard pc bios.
> The system BIOS in a PC is normally on the ISA bus which is reached
> across via the PCI bus with a PCI->ISA bridge.
Son of a gun, I missed that... sure enough my PIIX4 docs beside me here
show a
Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jaswinder Singh wrote:
>
> > Dear Sirs,
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> >
> > I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM
> > speed is slow :(
>
> Also, the PCI specification forbids executing code from ROMs over the
Jaswinder Singh wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM
> speed is slow :(
Also, the PCI specification forbids executing code from ROMs over the PCI bus.
The system BIOS in a PC is not on the PCI bus, bus, but
In article <01e701c09a2a$21e789a0$bba6b3d0@Toshiba> you wrote:
> I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM
> speed is slow :(
Well, normally you use the ROM only as a "boot device". You copy the Kernel
into RAM and run it. Ram is not more expensive than ROM :)
In article 01e701c09a2a$21e789a0$bba6b3d0@Toshiba you wrote:
I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM
speed is slow :(
Well, normally you use the ROM only as a "boot device". You copy the Kernel
into RAM and run it. Ram is not more expensive than ROM :)
What
Jaswinder Singh wrote:
Dear Sirs,
Thanks for your help,
I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM
speed is slow :(
Also, the PCI specification forbids executing code from ROMs over the PCI bus.
The system BIOS in a PC is not on the PCI bus, bus, but
Jeremy Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jaswinder Singh wrote:
Dear Sirs,
Thanks for your help,
I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM
speed is slow :(
Also, the PCI specification forbids executing code from ROMs over the PCI bus.
The system
"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
No it forbids executing boot roms that way, by a standard pc bios.
The system BIOS in a PC is normally on the ISA bus which is reached
across via the PCI bus with a PCI-ISA bridge.
Son of a gun, I missed that... sure enough my PIIX4 docs beside me here
show a
Peter Waltenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Having a PC that booted Linux directly from the (ex-BIOS) ROM , now that
would be "interesting".
Been there doing that.
http://www.linuxbios.org
Eric
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To: "Jaswinder Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 6:49 PM
Subject: RE: Kernel executation from ROM
>
> You can laod the kernel from ROM, but it'll need RAM to execute. If you
get to
> be very good with the linker and loader, you can p
Dear Kernel mailing list ,
what changes i have to made in kernel so that i can
run kernel from ROM, means i keep my kernel in ROM
and i execute my kernel from ROM .
Thanks ,
Happy Hacking,
Jaswinder.
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Dear Kernel mailing list ,
what changes i have to made in kernel so that i can
run kernel from ROM, means i keep my kernel in ROM
and i execute my kernel from ROM .
Thanks ,
Happy Hacking,
Jaswinder.
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To: "Jaswinder Singh" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 6:49 PM
Subject: RE: Kernel executation from ROM
You can laod the kernel from ROM, but it'll need RAM to execute. If you
get to
be very good with the linker and loader, you can probably make a large
par
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