[LinuxBIOS] FILO with the USB

[Vlad]

--- Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote: 
> Yes it has been done as a proof-of-concept but as far as I
> know
> Linux-as-bootloader never made it into any product (that I know of)

There are at least two "super-BIOS" implementations that rely on a
tiny Linux kernel loaded from Flash ROM:

1) SplashTop by ASUS (http://SplashTop.com)
Source code, including kernel patches, are downloadable:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=915&num=1

2) Hyperspace by Phoenix Technologies:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/phoenixs_hypers.html

Both of these run X.org, so I'm sure we'd need even less flash storage
for a text-mode interface.

The Linux-tiny project maintained by Sony also has patches to reduce
kernel size:
http://elinux.org/Linux_Tiny

Vlad


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