Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:41:19 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot1 changes and etherboot support Message-ID: <200102192141.f1JLfKE14156@billy-club.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:11:58 PST." <200102192111.f1JLBwQ40203@ambrisko.com> References: <200102192111.f1JLBwQ40203@ambrisko.com>
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In message <200102192111.f1JLBwQ40203@ambrisko.com> Doug Ambrisko writes: : Is this bits or bytes. The Intel firmware hub can have 4 or 8 Mbits that : comes with any Intel 8XX system so with gzip you could fit a bunch of : stuff in a standard off the shelf motherboard. Also CMOS memory is : increasing and that could be used for some configuration info to be : used as non-flash persistant storage such as IP address and such. Also : having a small BIOS image like General Software would help save space. Hmmm. I had assumed that it was bytes, but it may have been bits. It was an intel 8xx based design... Still, 2MBytes is enough for at least a kernel and the bare minimum to make a router... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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