[LinuxBIOS] FILO with the USB
Vlad
vladc6 at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 17 22:39:33 CET 2007
--- 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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