Thanks Peter,

So it seems the better would be to get an unwanted old board to play with.
The kernel itself is a stripped down one that could fit into the eeprom and
then the rest of the drivers are loaded from disk/flash drive?

Tamas


On 8/30/07, Peter Bindels <dascandy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 30/08/2007, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was just wondering if anybody was ever played with LinuxBIOS? Any
> > pros/contra around this? Basically I was thinking to build a thin
> graphical
> > client for myself so I could safely browse the net - and with this
> project
> > it seems I could make it like this machine would boot up in matter of
> > seconds.
>
> Haven't worked with it directly, know the technologies around it fairly
> well.
>
> Pro
> - Very fast
> - Very stable
>
> Contra:
> - Only a few boards supported (mine weren't)
> - If your upgrade fails, toss the board or reprogram it in a separate
> eeprom/flash programmer
> - Large EEPROM/FLASH required for the kernel
> - Might cause Windows and other OSes to freak out
> - Not BIOS nor EFI compatible
>
> Regards,
> Peter
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