The flash chip is 1 megabit, not byte, which comes out to 128kbytes, as
someone else mentioned. Also, the bios can be compressed before it is stored
on the chip, similiar to the kernel. The upgrades that I have d/l for my
machine have had a string mentioning compression in them.
How about a chaining bios? A very simple bios, that initializes the ide
hardware(if it exists), additional rom chips, then reads a conf file off a
hard drive. Then when booting the os, if it(the os) needs a complete bios, it
can read the correct bios from the hard drive, and pass control to it. This
way, there should be enough space in 128k compressed to have serial console
support, etc. Be aware that in the chaining bios, there would be no need for
support for configuration, as that would be done after the os is loaded.
Adam
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu