On 21 Feb 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000221170229.29452A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
> By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > If you find an 'open BIOS' source somewhere, where you add your board-
> > specific stuff, but it has the drivers for generic stuff like the
> > floppy, etc., I sure would like to know.
> >
> > This would save 'Intel embedded' systems the cost of a licensed PROM
> > that is never used once the machine is up.
> >
>
> You don't really need a BIOS for Linux; with some modifications to
> setup.S you can use a custom initialization PROM.
>
> -hpa
Until you really need to boot from a floppy so you can update your
NVRAM (or whatever you are using to embed Linux). Think customers
at a remote site, no boxes to boot over the network from, etc.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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