IDEA: Linux kernel and pcbios compatibility...

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Fri Dec 19 15:55:01 CET 2003


ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> On 19 Dec 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > The observation has been that any sufficiently general firmware
> > bootloader tends to become an OS, so why not use a real OS.
> 
> ah ha! we've come full circle :-)
> 
> good to hear. 

I have never disagreed.  Now that we have something that works for
the low end limited ROM solutions I can revisit some of the more
interesting ideas.

> > So the things I actually care about are: booting over myrinet,
> > booting over inifinband, booting over quadrics, booting over a pair of
> > bonded nics.  Having a good tg3 driver.   Getting Lustre as my root
> > filesystem.  Unless size issues kill it again I am going to use the
> > linux kernel as my bootloader to do this.
> 
> yah, this is why we still put linux in flash here at LANL.

Now if you had more than a proof of concept implementation of most
of the pieces I would not be happier, but anyway...

Eric



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