From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 19 13:42:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D585C37B401 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:42:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1JLgEh54111; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:42:15 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id f1JLfKE14156; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:41:20 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200102192141.f1JLfKE14156@billy-club.village.org> To: Doug Ambrisko Subject: Re: boot1 changes and etherboot support Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:11:58 PST." <200102192111.f1JLBwQ40203@ambrisko.com> References: <200102192111.f1JLBwQ40203@ambrisko.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:41:19 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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