Can I execute a linuxbios image from linux?

[Svante Signell]

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 20:08, ron minnich wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Svante Signell wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for the information. I'll check if this equipment is usable
> > for my hardware. The crucial thing is whether the BIOS chip is socketed
> > or not. We'll see, at least I know the size is 2Mbit, since the latest
> > BIOS binary (A6120IMS.200) supported by MSI is 261144kbyte. Does anybody
Sorry my mistake: 261.144 kbyte = 256 Kibyte = 2 Mibit = 2.097152 Mbit.
> 2 Mbit == 256K, too small for a kernel. 
I thought the LinuxBIOS was parts from of a kernel. What size is needed? 
It seems that the flash sizes are 1,2 and 4 Mibit, at least for older boards.
Have I missed something here?

> I think Bari Ari will tell us if you can get that part off :-)
Is he on this list?

> > However, according to the answers obtained so far there seems to be no
> > interest at all to make LinuxBIOS(V2) work with older motherboards, such
> > as the widely spread 440BX-based ones. As mentioned in earlier postings,
> > I'm willing to be a test pilot for this port, but I cannot do it without
> > help from the LinuxBIOS developers.
> 
> LinuxBIOS generally works fine with 440BX boards.
Do you mean the target for 440BX in freebios version1, 
freebios/util/config/l440bx-test12.config? 
Do the latest kernels,e.g. 2.4.25 still have to be patched with the 2.4.13 patch,
freebios/src/kernel_patches/linux-2.4.13-l440gx.diff?
Is the onboard SCSI and dual CPU supported?