Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:25:05 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Motherboard design specifically for Linux |
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On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 07:08:09PM +0100, Simon Kenyon wrote: > On 21-Oct-98 Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > >> a floppy would be much better > >> and then again, what about ls-120? > > Ouch, you'd need to have a full IDE/ATAPI driver inside the non-writable part > > of the ROM, which I don't think is a good idea. > > i know > that is why i asked the question > > i've built a couple of machines recently with no floppy (just ls-120) which > after all will read/write ordinary floppies > some motherboards i've used have a bios which treats an ls-120 as if it were a > floppy and map it to a: etc. then again, some other motherboards do not do > this. > > i was proposing that the linux motherboard (with it's 2MB of cache :-) will do > the former
The serial (and/or floppy) loading mechanism was intended, in this thread, to allow fix a badly flashed rom, as a last resort when nothing else helps.
Thus there is not a big need for nifty LS120 or whatever support. This would be handled by the Linux kernel itself, booting off the flash rom directly.
There would be no need for a harddrive driver in the flash rom r/o part, except for Linux's own as well - no need for int 13 to read the kernel from the harddrive, when it is in the flash.
Vojtech
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