From owner-freebsd-small Thu Sep 17 04:18:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20443 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 04:18:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hustle.rahul.net (hustle.rahul.net [192.160.13.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA20429 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 04:18:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimd@starshine.org) Received: by hustle.rahul.net with UUCP id AA14932 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-small@freebsd.org); Thu, 17 Sep 1998 04:17:43 -0700 Received: from canopus.starshine.org (canopus.starshine.org [192.168.64.3]) by antares.starshine.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA07629; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:56:06 -0700 Received: from canopus.starshine.org (jimd@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canopus.starshine.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA02507; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:55:56 -0700 Message-Id: <199809170755.AAA02507@canopus.starshine.org> To: Oliver Xymoron Cc: Chris Avis , linux-embedded@waste.org, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: MH 8.6.3 Subject: Bootable ISA ROM Disk Card: (was Linux or FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: Message Apparently From Oliver Xymoron Dated Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:40:41 CDT. Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:55:49 -0700 From: Jim Dennis Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The biggest hurdle on making an embeddable Linux on a processor family > that's already supported is probably the bootstrapping. Since this will > likely vary from design to design because of changing memory maps, chipset > initialization, etc., it's hard to see how a generic "project" can help. > Most of the other kernel stuff needed to make an embedded box workable, > like RAM or ROM disks, serial console support, etc. already exist. Speaking of ROM disks --- where can I find a bootable supported ISA ROM disk card for Linux? I'd prefer one that accepts PCMCIA memory/flash cards --- particularly the Maxtor ones with the handy hardware write-protect on them. -- Jim Dennis (800) 938-4078 consulting@starshine.org Proprietor, Starshine Technical Services: http://www.starshine.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message