[coreboot] ### Bios

Jordan Crouse jordan at cosmicpenguin.net
Wed Nov 12 22:48:59 CET 2008


ron minnich wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Steve Spano <steve at fl-eng.com> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Is anyone aware of a 2Mbyte PLCC32 BIOS flash prom that can be used with the
>> AMD LX800 / CS5536?
>>
>> I would like to use coreboot V2 to directly launch the Linux kernel as an
>> ELF payload and then use a YAFFS2 filesystem to access a NAND flash on the
>> IDE bus.
>>
>> Any thoughts would also be appreciated - thank you
>>
> 
> If you get the part this should work fine. Actually I have shoehorned
> 2.6 kernels into 1 MB in the past -- lzma makes it work.

If you don't need anything but the filesystem drivers, then < 1Mb with 
LZMA should be more then enough.

Jordan




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