--- girish <girishvg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > would it be reasonable to choose couple of > bootmonitors and support > them under MIPS/Linux umbrella. even bootable linux > would be a good > choice. I can't see why not. For that matter, I can't imagine it would be too hard to write the necessary flash support to get LinuxBIOS working. It does puzzle me, though, that the kernel seems to get a lot of data from CFE rather than using the probes it already has. Whether it's a built-in BIOS (as on the PC), ACPI, CFE, or some other external table of what is present, the one thing experience has taught is that these tables cannot (and should not) be trusted. Kernel discovery, although unsafe for some hardware*, generally produces more accurate and reliable results. *Of course, that's a killer. There is an unfortunately large amount of hardware in the world that cannot be used safely in conjunction with probes. Other hardware will respond incorrectly, screw up the machine, play all your MP3's backwards, ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
