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anyone considered changinging the bios?
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:29 pm
by serialjoepsycho
to coreboot and perhaps place the linux kernel right beside it.
Re: anyone considered changinging the bios?
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:25 pm
by quotaholic
over my head but it sure does sound interesting!
Re: anyone considered changinging the bios?
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:23 pm
by serialjoepsycho
it's way above my pay grade as well but if I understand correctly you can put the kernel on the bios and that with a few other things could clear up the hdd space to bring more to it. That with something like the Runz framework could either make it faster or make it so you can run more stuff.
Re: anyone considered changinging the bios?
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:49 pm
by quotaholic
Again interesting. I may look in to this on a hobby level. The 2.6.29 kernel with modules was nearly 100megs. May need a bigger chip but its plausible. Open boot and Coreboot are on the same lines. Open Firmware, a sister to openboot, is currently used in apple hardware. The hackintosh community likely has lots of reading material on doing just this.
I just reserved a moving truck, again, so I am taking some time to relocate and get set up in a new town. Hopefully I will do some reading on this at my new location. This sounds like the start to many interesting embedded experiments.
quotaholic